Re: [PATCH] kern/120958: no response to ICMP traffic on interface configured with a link-local address

2008-03-13 Thread James Snow
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:40:07PM -0400, James Snow wrote: > > Also, I took a cue from the IN_LINKLOCAL() macro and added two new > macros to sys/netinet/in.h to perform checks for the loopback network > and the "zero" network. IN_LOOPBACK() and IN_ZERONET(), respective

[PATCH] kern/120958: no response to ICMP traffic on interface configured with a link-local address

2008-03-13 Thread James Snow
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:04:12PM +, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > I looked at this very briefly. > > It's gnarly because in_canforward() is a candidate for inlining and is a > predicate which is being overloaded with different meanings by > ip_forward()/ip_input() and icmp_reflect(). > > So w

Re: kern/120958: no response to ICMP traffic on interface configured with a link-local address

2008-03-13 Thread James Snow
The following reply was made to PR kern/120958; it has been noted by GNATS. From: James Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: kern/120958: no response to ICMP traffic on interface configured with a link-local address Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:23:55

7.0 & Link-Local Addresses

2008-02-20 Thread James Snow
In 6.2-Rp7: 6.2-Rp7# uname -srm FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 i386 6.2-Rp7# ifconfig lo1 create 6.2-Rp7# ifconfig lo1 inet 169.254.1.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 6.2-Rp7# ping -c1 169.254.1.1 PING 169.254.1.1 (169.254.1.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 169.254.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms --- 169.254.1.