On 8/22/19 4:20 AM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:33:58PM -0400, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 8/19/19 10:19 PM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
>>> But in ipv6_add_addr() it will check the address type and reject multicast
>>> address directly. So this feature is never worked for IPv6.
>>
>> If tr
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:33:58PM -0400, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/19/19 10:19 PM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > But in ipv6_add_addr() it will check the address type and reject multicast
> > address directly. So this feature is never worked for IPv6.
>
> If true, that is really disappointing.
>
> We n
From: Hangbin Liu
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:19:47 +0800
> In commit 93a714d6b53d ("multicast: Extend ip address command to enable
> multicast group join/leave on") we added a new flag IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN
> to make user able to add multicast address on ethernet interface.
>
> This works for IPv4, bu
On 8/19/19 10:19 PM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> But in ipv6_add_addr() it will check the address type and reject multicast
> address directly. So this feature is never worked for IPv6.
If true, that is really disappointing.
We need to get a functional test script started for various address cases.
In commit 93a714d6b53d ("multicast: Extend ip address command to enable
multicast group join/leave on") we added a new flag IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN
to make user able to add multicast address on ethernet interface.
This works for IPv4, but not for IPv6. See the inet6_addr_add code.
static int inet6_addr_
