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

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Message-ID: <20251120192443.21bd30d1@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:24:43 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: David Wei <dw@...idwei.uk>
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 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?

> +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.