netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 6/7] selftests/net: add LOCAL_PREFIX

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Message-ID: <0f575098-7474-4293-afd0-3590e000365f@davidwei.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:19:21 -0800
From: David Wei <dw@...idwei.uk>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 6/7] selftests/net: add LOCAL_PREFIX_V{4,6}
 env to HW selftests

On 2025-11-20 19:24, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:30:15 -0800 David Wei wrote:
>> +LOCAL_PREFIX_V6, LOCAL_PREFIX_V6
>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> I suppose one of these was supposed to say 4?

Oops, yes. Thanks, will correct.

> 
>> +Local IP prefix that is publicly routable. Devices assigned with an address
>> +using this prefix can directly receive packets from a remote.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> Local IP prefix/subnet which can be used to allocate extra IP addresses
> (for network name spaces behind macvlan, veth, netkit devices).
> DUT must be reachable using these addresses from the endpoint.

Sounds good.