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
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
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,
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
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