Re: forwarding of ipv4 link local addresses

2015-12-09 Thread David Ahern
On 12/9/15 6:44 AM, Thomas Graf wrote: On 12/03/15 at 02:35pm, David Miller wrote: From: David Ahern Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 13:35:58 -0800 RFC 3927 states that packets from/to IPv4 link-local addresses (169.254/16) should not be forwarded, yet the Linux networking stack happily forwards them.

Re: forwarding of ipv4 link local addresses

2015-12-09 Thread Thomas Graf
On 12/09/15 at 02:44pm, Thomas Graf wrote: > This feature is being used by a popular PaaS which leverages the > 127/8 address space locally without polluting an entire routeable > address space. Kubernetes also wants to rely on this eventually, so please let's not break it ;-) -- To unsubscribe fr

Re: forwarding of ipv4 link local addresses

2015-12-09 Thread Thomas Graf
On 12/03/15 at 02:35pm, David Miller wrote: > From: David Ahern > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 13:35:58 -0800 > > > RFC 3927 states that packets from/to IPv4 link-local addresses > > (169.254/16) should not be forwarded, yet the Linux networking stack > > happily forwards them. Before sending in a patch

Re: forwarding of ipv4 link local addresses

2015-12-03 Thread David Miller
From: David Ahern Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 13:35:58 -0800 > RFC 3927 states that packets from/to IPv4 link-local addresses > (169.254/16) should not be forwarded, yet the Linux networking stack > happily forwards them. Before sending in a patch I wanted to inquire > if this behavior is intentional.

forwarding of ipv4 link local addresses

2015-12-01 Thread David Ahern
RFC 3927 states that packets from/to IPv4 link-local addresses (169.254/16) should not be forwarded, yet the Linux networking stack happily forwards them. Before sending in a patch I wanted to inquire if this behavior is intentional. Thanks, David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin