nd6_lookup prints bogus messages with point to point devices
JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
Tue May 23 04:43:15 UTC 2006
>>>>> On Mon, 22 May 2006 09:50:37 -0700,
>>>>> "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn at neville-neil.com> said:
>> Could you try the patch attached below? It's for 6.1-RELEASE, but I
>> guess it's pretty easy to apply to CURRENT.
>>
>> The essential reason of this problem is that the latest kernel regards
>> the destination address of a point-to-point interface as a "neighbor"
>> wrt Neighbor Discovery while a neighbor cache entry is not created on
>> configuring the interface with the addresses. I believe it makes
>> sense to treat the destination address as a neighbor, so the fix is to
>> make sure that the cache entry is created when the interface is
>> configured.
> I can apply and commit this after a bit of testing.
Thanks, please do to. I believe the patch also fixes this problem
report:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/93220
So, could you also confirm this and give feedback to (or close) the
report? (I'll send a follow-up message to the report by myself it
it's appropriate).
Thanks,
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
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