Re: Processing IPv6 Router Advertisements

2010-02-04 Thread Fernando Gont
Hello, Jinmei, > Your understanding of what's happening is correct, and it's an > intentional behavior. The relevant part of the source code is the > following snippet of: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_input.c?rev=1.81.2.4;content-type=text/plain Thanks so much

Re: Processing IPv6 Router Advertisements

2010-02-01 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:59:56 -0300, Fernando Gont wrote: > RA messages seem to be required to have a Source Address in the > fe80::/32 prefix, rather than in the fe80::/10 prefix. That is, the > first 32 bits of the IPv6 Source address must be fe80:, or else the > message is dropped (at least

Re: Processing IPv6 Router Advertisements

2010-01-19 Thread Fernando Gont
Hello, David, Thanks so much for your response. Comments in-line >> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-Release in one of my boxes, and there seems to >> be a bug in the processing of Router Advertisement messages. >> >> RA messages seem to be required to have a Source Address in the >> fe80::/32 prefix,

Re: Processing IPv6 Router Advertisements

2010-01-19 Thread David Horn
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: > Hello, folks, > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-Release in one of my boxes, and there seems to > be a bug in the processing of Router Advertisement messages. > > RA messages seem to be required to have a Source Address in the > fe80::/32 prefix, ra

Processing IPv6 Router Advertisements

2010-01-19 Thread Fernando Gont
Hello, folks, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-Release in one of my boxes, and there seems to be a bug in the processing of Router Advertisement messages. RA messages seem to be required to have a Source Address in the fe80::/32 prefix, rather than in the fe80::/10 prefix. That is, the first 32 bits of th