From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mika Liljeberg Subject: Re: Anycast usage, final diagnosis? (was: IPv6: Fix broken anycast Date: 17 Jul 2003 12:32:33 +0300 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <1058434352.5780.44.camel@hades> References: <200307170906.NAA13688@dub.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@redhat.com, jmorris@redhat.com, pekkas@netcore.fi, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru In-Reply-To: <200307170906.NAA13688@dub.inr.ac.ru> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:06, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > They cannot intersect, otherwise RTF_LOCAL thing will not work. > > I deliberately blocked attempt to add a local address as anycast > in anycast.c, see another chunk. Ok, I missed that one. I guess it's safe to assume that the anycast and unicast spaces will not intersect, even though the addresses are allocated from the same range. I was wondering how to dynamically assign anycast addresses. In theory one could abuse the unicast address assignment mechanisms (in the absence of anything else users might be tempted to try this). But that's a different issue. MikaL