Adding submitter and launchpad bug to CC. On mån, 2009-12-07 at 12:18 -0500, Brian Haley wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > Hello again! > > > > Replying to myself (see http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg113943.html) > > and attaching an untested patch to see if this sparks more interest. > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:59:45PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > >> "Jedasothi" reported problems setting scope with iproute on newly added > >> ipv6 addresses in: > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute/+bug/487745 > >> > >>> To reproduce bug run > >>> ip addr add '::4/64' scope link dev eth0 > >>> > >>> This results in a line seen with > >>> ip addr show eth0 > >>> inet6 ::4/64 scope global tentative > >>> > >>> The label "global" is seen instead of "link". > > > > I'd appreciate if someone could review and test this: > > I tried the patch quickly since I was curious why this is a problem, but > it didn't work exactly right. I could post an update, but I'm not sure > this is the right thing to do - ::4 isn't a link-local address, and other > parts of the network stack (and other systems) aren't going to treat it as > such. > > Maybe the submitter can explain exactly how this is breaking something? > > Thanks, > > -Brian
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