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From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mika Liljeberg <mika.liljeberg@welho.com>, <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:51:56 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307110750150.24705-100000@netcore.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1057888154.26854.324.camel@localhost>

On 11 Jul 2003, Andre Tomt wrote:
> On fre, 2003-07-11 at 02:04, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
> > Well, the thing is that prefix:: is a special anycast address that
> > identifies a router on the link prefix::/n, where n is the prefix
> > length. You had configured a 127-bit link prefix, meaning that you had
> > only one valid unicast address (last bit == 1) in addition to the router
> > anycast address (last bit == 0).
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, I've been struggling to understand what
> Yoshfuji tried to explain to me earlier on this topic (see "IPv6 bugs
> introduced in 2.4.21" - ie. my bogus bugreport), now it all makes
> perfect sense :-)

Well, the system may make some sense, but IMHO, there is still zero sense 
in policing this thing when you add a route.  That's just plain bogus.  
This is a bug which must be fixed ASAP.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-11  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-10 15:43 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked CaT
2003-07-10 15:55 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-10 15:58   ` CaT
2003-07-10 16:08   ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-10 16:18     ` 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling broken YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-10 16:19       ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-10 19:57   ` 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked Mika Penttilä
2003-07-10 16:27 ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-10 23:39   ` CaT
2003-07-11  0:04     ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-11  1:49       ` Andre Tomt
2003-07-11  2:03         ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-11  2:03         ` 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling broken YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-11  4:51         ` Pekka Savola [this message]
2003-07-11  5:20           ` 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-11  5:22             ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-11  5:39               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-11  8:46                 ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-11  9:04                   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-11  9:39                     ` Mika Penttilä
2003-07-11 10:03                     ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-11 10:47                       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-11 10:47                         ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-11 10:59                           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-11 10:59                             ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-11 11:03                               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-07-11 11:04                                 ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-11 11:36               ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-11 11:48                 ` Pekka Savola
2003-07-11 12:09                   ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-11 12:48                     ` Mika Penttilä
2003-07-11 13:38                       ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-11 14:27                         ` Mika Penttilä
2003-07-11 14:32                           ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-07-11 15:16                             ` Mika Penttilä

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