On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:48, Mika Penttilä wrote:
It turns out to be the (otherwise valid) check for IFF_LOOPBACK for
gateway's address in ip6_route_add() that gives EINVAL for prefix::, and
has nothing to do with iid being 0, just a coinsidence....
Not sure. Seems to me that ipv6_addr_type() flags the gateway address as
anycast. In ip6_route_addr() [2.5.74] we have:
if (rtmsg->rtmsg_flags & RTF_GATEWAY) {
struct in6_addr *gw_addr;
int gwa_type;
gw_addr = &rtmsg->rtmsg_gateway;
ipv6_addr_copy(&rt->rt6i_gateway, &rtmsg->rtmsg_gateway);
gwa_type = ipv6_addr_type(gw_addr);
if (gwa_type != (IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL|IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST)) {
struct rt6_info *grt;
/* IPv6 strictly inhibits using not link-local
addresses as nexthop address.
Otherwise, router will not able to send redirects.
It is very good, but in some (rare!) curcumstances
(SIT, PtP, NBMA NOARP links) it is handy to allow
some exceptions. --ANK
*/
err = -EINVAL;
if (!(gwa_type&IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST))
goto out;
Looks like it would bail out here, unless I read the code wrong. How about:
if (!(gwa_type&(IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST|IPV6_ADDR_ANYCAST)))
goto out;
MikaL
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