Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Support IPv6 link-local address scopes on Linux.

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 07:11:31AM +, Darrell Ball wrote: > > > On 7/11/17, 9:23 PM, "Ben Pfaff" wrote: > > Thanks for the review. > > I'm very new to the concept of IPv6 link-local address scoping. What > does this subset out of the larger feature? > >

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Support IPv6 link-local address scopes on Linux.

On 7/11/17, 9:23 PM, "Ben Pfaff" wrote: Thanks for the review. I'm very new to the concept of IPv6 link-local address scoping. What does this subset out of the larger feature? There is lots of flexibility here, mostly not relevant to ovs; for example one basic

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Support IPv6 link-local address scopes on Linux.

Thanks for the review. I'm very new to the concept of IPv6 link-local address scoping. What does this subset out of the larger feature? On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:30:29PM +, Darrell Ball wrote: > This looks correct to me and a reasonable subset of support of scoping, > although I did not

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Support IPv6 link-local address scopes on Linux.

This looks correct to me and a reasonable subset of support of scoping, although I did not test it. I noticed there was some unrelated cleanup w.r.t. parse_sockaddr_components(), but those changes are minor. Acked-by: Darrell Ball On 7/5/17, 5:20 PM,

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Support IPv6 link-local address scopes on Linux.

I hadn't even heard of this feature before, but it seems to be at least semi-standard to support Linux link-local address scopes via a % suffix, e.g. fe80::1234%eth0 for a link-local address scoped to eth0. This commit adds support. I'd appreciate feedback from folks who understand this feature