netdev - Re: ICMPv6 sockets

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Date:	Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:26:10 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jesse White <jesse@...nnms.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ICMPv6 sockets

On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 11:02 -0500, Jesse White wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Support for IPPROTO_ICMP socket binds was added in commit
> c319b4d76b9e583a5d88d6bf190e079c4e43213d
> which allow for process to send ICMP_ECHO messages (and receive the
> corresponding ICMP_ECHOREPLY messages)
> without any special privileges.
> 
> There doesn't appear to be any similar functionality for
> IPPROTO_ICMPV6.
> 
> Would the net maintainers be open to including a patch that adds
> similar support for ICMPv6?

But there is IPv6 support already, this was added in linux-3.11 by
Lorenzo Colitti.




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