On Jun 28,  8:06pm, M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de (Matthias Drochner) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: tcpdrop vs ipv6

| christos@astron.com said:
| > I don't think that this is needed since the v4 sysctl node should be
| > able to handle v6.
| 
| Yes, but since seperate sysctl nodes are created, I assumed
| this was on purpose.
| 
| There is some code in sysctl_net_inet_tcp_ident():
|         pf = name[-3];
| 	[...]
| 	if (pf != sa[0].ss_family [...]
| which enforces that the AF in the sysctl mib matches
| the pf in the socket addresses. It might be sufficient to just
| replace that by something like
| 	pf = sa[0].ss_family
| 
| > The kernel
| > support for v6 is there, but I am not sure if it deals with scoped
| > addresses.
| 
| The scope information is not passed to inet6_ident_core().
| I've tried with my patch: global addresses work, link-local not.

Ok, I see. I will fix the userland portion. Anon Ymous is looking at
the scoped address issue.

christos