On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Pekka Savola wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] µÈÆ£±ÑÌÀ wrote:

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In article [ref] (at Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:11:20 +0200 (EET)), Ville Nuorvala [off-list ref] says:

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+	/* The proxying router can't forward traffic sent to a link-local
+	   address, so signal the sender and discard the packet. This
+	   behavior is required by the MIPv6 specification. */

Would you please clarify the word "can't" and its reasons?
won't? don't? or whatever?

I think "can't" in this context means, "it can't be _forwarded_
because it's link-local".  It could be proxied using some other
function than ip6_forward, though.

Yes.

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Ville Nuorvala
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Helsinki University of Technology
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