On Fri, Aug 07 2020, Florian Obser <[email protected]> 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 draft-itojun-ipv6-tcp-to-anycast rightly > concluded that TCP connections must be prevented. > > The draft also states: > > The proposed method MUST be removed when one of the following events > happens in the future: > > o Restriction imposed on IPv6 anycast address is loosened, so that > anycast address can be placed into source address field of the IPv6 > header[...]
Also worth reading: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4942#section-2.1.6 > OK? ok jca@ If you don't want to remove M_ACAST from sys/mbuf.h, can you please at least change the comment? /* obsolete */ or something. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
