David Miller wrote:
From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:25:59 -0700 (PDT)
Can you guys please just state upfront what virtualization
issue is made more difficult by features you want to remove?
Sorry, I mentioned "virtualization" because that's been the
largest majority of the cases being presented lately.
I suspect in your case it's some multicast or SCTP thing :-)
It's actually neither in this case :)
We have customers migrating from BSD stacks to Linux. They notice all
the differences in the sockets API, sometimes even find bugs, and we fix
them and send patches upstream. They also do stupid things like
duplicate address configurations on two interfaces in different subnets.
IPv6 was the curious one for us here since it falls into an RFC gray
area - addresses are assigned to interfaces, not hosts (RFC 4291), but
they should be tested for uniqueness before being assigned (RFC 4862).
This address didn't pass the uniqueness test, although it did pass DAD
because the links were different. We couldn't find another OS for a
host or router (including IOS) that allows this, hence the question.
Thanks, and sorry if it's just another waste of your time to explain it.
-Brian
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