From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Savola Subject: Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:03:57 +0300 (EEST) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: <200307152319.DAA09683@dub.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: davem@redhat.com, Return-path: To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru In-Reply-To: <200307152319.DAA09683@dub.inr.ac.ru> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > Assume you're a host on a link with prefix 3FFE:FFFF:A:B::/64. The router > > is the one with interface ID one. > > Not going to work. Host autoconfiguration conventions have nothing > to do with real addressing. Proceeding in this way you will denounce > neighbour discovery, what the hell to do this when hw address can be recovered > from EUI64 token? :-) Did you miss the word "Assume" ? > > 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? -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings