Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (Added netdev cc) > > Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now about IPv6: npush and npoll are two applications I wrote. npush > > sends multicast announcements and opens a TCP socket. npoll receives > > the multicast announcement and connects to the source IP/port/scope_id > > of the announcement. If both are run on the same machine, npoll sees > > the link local address of eth0 as source IP, and the interface number of > > eth0 as scope_id. So far so good. Trying to connect() however hangs. > > Since this has been broken in different ways for as long as I can > > remember in Linux, and I keep complaining about it every half a year or > > so. Can't someone fix this once and for all? IPv4 checks whether we > > are connecting to our own address and reroutes through loopback, why > > can't IPv6?
afaik, this problem is still open. If you have time, please provide additional info for the net developers. Maybe the source to npoll anbd npush? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
