Hi,

Erik Kline wrote:
> Per RFC 6724, section 4, "Candidate Source Addresses":
> 
>     It is RECOMMENDED that the candidate source addresses be the set
>     of unicast addresses assigned to the interface that will be used
>     to send to the destination (the "outgoing" interface).
> 
> Add a sysctl to enable this behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Kline <e...@google.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
>  include/linux/ipv6.h                   |  1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h              |  1 +
>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c                    | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 
> b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> index 5fae770..d8f3e60 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> @@ -1435,6 +1435,18 @@ mtu - INTEGER
>       Default Maximum Transfer Unit
>       Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
>  
> +restrict_srcaddr - INTEGER
> +     Restrict candidate source addresses (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
> +
> +     When set to 1, the candidate source addresses for destinations
> +     routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
> +     configured on this interface.
> +
> +     Possible values are:
> +             0 : no source address restrictions
> +             1 : require matching outgoing interface
> +     Default:  0
> +

I cannot get what "restrict" restricts.  How about "use_oif_addr" or
something like that (like use_tempaddr)?

-- 
Hideaki Yoshifuji <hideaki.yoshif...@miraclelinux.com>
Technical Division, MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION
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