From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:03:56 +0400 (MSD) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <200307170003.EAA12843@dub.inr.ac.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: pekkas@netcore.fi (Pekka Savola) In-Reply-To: from "Pekka Savola" at Jul 16, 2003 09:03:57 AM Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello! > > > What happens when you do "ping6 3FFE:FFFF:A:B::1" ? > > > > Hey, you have lost track, rewind several mails ago. > > Nope. I'm just pointing out the general concept. > > > Of course, ping and > > any other protocols will work, how can it not work? :-) > > It has been made shown to work on other platforms, so why not Linux? ping did, does and will work and I do not understand what you want to say or ask. Do you want to know how it works? Well, IPv6 stack looks up the address in routing tables, finds the route, sees that it is on-link, sends NDISC, receiver replies, we create a frame and send the echo request. To continue? :-) Alexey