Re: allow TCP connections to IPv6 anycast addresses

2020-08-08 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
On Sat, Aug 08 2020, Florian Obser wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: >> If you don't want to remove M_ACAST from sys/mbuf.h, can you please at >> least change the comment? /* obsolete */ or something. > > Good point, I forgot to ask about what to

Re: allow TCP connections to IPv6 anycast addresses

2020-08-08 Thread Florian Obser
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > If you don't want to remove M_ACAST from sys/mbuf.h, can you please at > least change the comment? /* obsolete */ or something. Good point, I forgot to ask about what to do with the flag. I think we can remove it, from

Re: allow TCP connections to IPv6 anycast addresses

2020-08-07 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
On Fri, Aug 07 2020, Florian Obser wrote: > No longer prevent TCP connections to IPv6 anycast addresses. > > RFC 4291 dropped this requirement from RFC 3513: >o An anycast address must not be used as the source address of an > IPv6 packet. > > And from that requirement

allow TCP connections to IPv6 anycast addresses

2020-08-07 Thread Florian Obser
No longer prevent TCP connections to IPv6 anycast addresses. RFC 4291 dropped this requirement from RFC 3513: o An anycast address must not be used as the source address of an IPv6 packet. And from that requirement draft-itojun-ipv6-tcp-to-anycast rightly concluded that TCP