netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 1/2] net: allow user to set IPv6 nexthop for IPv4 route

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Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:37:46 -0400
From:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini05@...il.com>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bjornar Ness <bjornar.ness@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 1/2] net: allow user to set IPv6 nexthop for IPv4 route

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Andy Gospodarek
<gospo@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:

>
> You are correct that there is not a great way to construct this since
> the frames at strictly IPv4 frames.  I'll have to dig into this a bit
> more to see if there is something worth doing for this case.

Most of the complexity is probably the router-side behavior (for when/how
to construct redirects). I suspect the host side should be straight-forward,
and not too much change.

--Sowmini
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