Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2005-11-16

Re: [PATCH]small fix for __ipv6_addr_type(...)

From: Vlad Yasevich <hidden>
Date: 2005-11-15 22:20:54
Also in: lkml

No, according to RFC 4007, loopback is considered a link-local
address.

-vlad

Yan Zheng wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Hi.

I think the scope for loopback address should be node local.

Regards

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <redacted>

========================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1/net/ipv6/addrconf.c    2005-11-13
12:23:06.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/net/ipv6/addrconf.c    2005-11-13 15:50:03.000000000 +0800
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ int __ipv6_addr_type(const struct in6_ad

            if (addr->s6_addr32[3] == htonl(0x00000001))
                return (IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK | IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST |
-                   
IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_LINKLOCAL));    /* addr-select 3.4 */
+                   
IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_NODELOCAL));    /* addr-select 3.4 */

            return (IPV6_ADDR_COMPATv4 | IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST |
                IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_GLOBAL));    /*
addr-select 3.3 */
-
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