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From: Mika Liljeberg <mika.liljeberg@welho.com>
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: pekkas@netcore.fi, davem@redhat.com, jmorris@redhat.com,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] IPv6: Allow 6to4 routes with SIT
Date: 17 Jul 2003 02:39:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058398742.5778.26.camel@hades> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307162328.DAA12405@dub.inr.ac.ru>

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 02:28, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> > While I see where you're coming from, I don't really understand what the
> > fuss is all about.
> 
> The issue definitely does not worth of time already spent for the discussion.

I agree. :)

> All the fuss is about the fact that this code lived and will live for years.
> If we allowed to add small tricks of this kind, it would end up as a full mess.
> Each convenience trick must have a logical background.

So what's the background for having the hack to specify a tunnel EP with
a gateway route?

> I have been asked for an opinion, this is my opinion: 6to4 is wrong,
> addresses in format of 6over4 are natural, if they are deprecated,
> another and even more natural variant is use of link-local format,
> fe80::a.b.c.d.

IPv4-mapped would be semantically correct. It definately can't be
confused with any real IPv6 address.

	MikaL

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-16 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030713005345.1fea1092.davem@redhat.com>
2003-07-14 23:29 ` Fw: [PATCH] IPv6: Allow 6to4 routes with SIT kuznet
2003-07-15  6:28   ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-15 14:28     ` kuznet
2003-07-15 19:26       ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-15 23:32         ` kuznet
2003-07-16  6:12           ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-17  0:20             ` kuznet
2003-07-17  7:04               ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-17 11:16                 ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-17 11:54                   ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-17 13:55                     ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-17 14:35                       ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-16 22:28       ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-16 23:28         ` kuznet
2003-07-16 23:39           ` Mika Liljeberg [this message]
2003-07-16 23:58             ` kuznet

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