Re: [PATCH] ipv6: silence log messages for locally generatedmulticast

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 18:48:58 EST


From: Jan Sembera <jsembera@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:25:57 +0100

> This patch fixes minor annoyance during transmission of unsolicited
> neighbor advertisements from userspace to multicast addresses (as
> far as I can see in RFC, this is allowed and the similar functionality
> for IPv4 has been in arping for a long time).
>
> Outgoing multicast packets get reinserted into local processing as if they
> are received from the network. The machine thus sees its own NA and fills
> the logs with error messages. This patch removes the message if NA has been
> generated locally.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Sembera <jsembera@xxxxxxx>

Patch applied, thanks Jan.
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