Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:33:58 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino
 speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> 
> (Added netdev cc)
> 
> Felix von Leitner <felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de> wrote:
> >
> > Now about IPv6: npush and npoll are two applications I wrote.  npush
> > sends multicast announcements and opens a TCP socket.  npoll receives
> > the multicast announcement and connects to the source IP/port/scope_id
> > of the announcement.  If both are run on the same machine, npoll sees
> > the link local address of eth0 as source IP, and the interface number of
> > eth0 as scope_id.  So far so good.  Trying to connect() however hangs.
> > Since this has been broken in different ways for as long as I can
> > remember in Linux, and I keep complaining about it every half a year or
> > so.  Can't someone fix this once and for all?  IPv4 checks whether we
> > are connecting to our own address and reroutes through loopback, why
> > can't IPv6?

afaik, this problem is still open.  If you have time, please provide
additional info for the net developers.  Maybe the source to npoll anbd
npush?

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