> There appears to be a fetal implementation or ND Proxy in ip_ndp.c (see > references to NCE_F_PROXY) whose origins are a bit of a mystery. The > flag and the code surrounding it (currently the dangling NDF_PROXY_ON and > NDF_PROXY_OFF flags for the SIOCLIFSETND ioctl, and twiddling the > override bit in Neighbor Advertisements if NCE_F_PROXY is set) appear to > be dead. > > Much more infrastructure needs to be in place for ND Proxy to work > (including forwarding ND messages, and joining solicited-node multicast > groups for nodes being proxied, etc.), and this isolated flag does not > figure in this solution. An existing ND Proxy RFC exists (RFC 4389), but > this flag is not part of an implementation of this experimental protocol. > > My opinion is that this flag and the code surrounding it is in fact dead > and does not do anything. Does anyone have any additional insight into > this? I think it could safely be removed.
A related bit of seemingly-dead code is the NDF_ANYCAST_ON/NDF_ANYCAST_OFF logic. Seems like all of this stuff should go. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
