Re: [PATCH]behavior of ip6_route_input() for link local address.

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

Hello.

In article <43572256.40101@xxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:51:34 +0800), Yan Zheng <yanzheng@xxxxxxxx> says:

> I find that linux will reply echo request destined to an address which belongs to an interface other than the one from which the request received.
> This behavior doesn't make sense for link local address.

Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please note that sender does need to setup neighbor
entry by hand to reproduce this bug.
(Link-local address on eth1 is not visible on eth0,
from the point of view of neighbor discovery in IPv6.)

 +--------+               +--------+
 | sender |               | router |
 +---+----+               +-+----+-+
     |eth0              eth0|    |eth1
-----+----------------------+-  -+--------------

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