Re: [PATCH|RFC] IPv6: have a proxy discard link-local traffic

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401272259160.28384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 27 
> Jan 2004 23:11:20 +0200 (EET)), Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> > +   /* The proxying router can't forward traffic sent to a link-local
> > +      address, so signal the sender and discard the packet. This
> > +      behavior is required by the MIPv6 specification. */
> 
> Would you please clarify the word "can't" and its reasons?
> won't? don't? or whatever?

I think "can't" in this context means, "it can't be _forwarded_
because it's link-local".  It could be proxied using some other
function than ip6_forward, though.

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