Re: ping6 bug or feature?

2011-12-05 Thread Simon Perreault
Peter J. Philipp wrote, on 12/04/2011 08:06 AM: > Somehere inside ping6 the > return address is not checked with the outgoing address and it happily > accepts 2001:a60:f074::25 as a valid return address in my case. That's a feature. Think about what would happen when pinging a multicast or an any

ping6 bug or feature?

2011-12-04 Thread Peter J. Philipp
I'm writing some NAT/redirect stuff for IPv6 (don't ask why) and I've come across this packet manglery: dione$ ping6 2a01:4f8:d13:1980::1000 PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:a60:f074::30 --> 2a01:4f8:d13:1980::1000 16 bytes from 2001:a60:f074::25, icmp_seq=0 hlim=64 time=20.019 ms ^C --- 2a01:4f8:d13