issue with route

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
Thu Jun 2 12:25:06 PDT 2005


>>>>> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:33:32 +0200, 
>>>>> Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org> said:

>> I verified this behavior on both FreeBSD 5.4 Release and 6.0-CURRENT.

> Looks very strange indeed.

>> I think this behavior is probably not intended and should be treated
>> as a bug. I did a quick patch in sys/net/route.c
>> (it's just as easy in sbin/route.c).

> Unless this causes or supposed to cause some kind of automagic
> IPv4 in IPv6 encapsulation?  Can you check out if this is not
> the case (RFC references, KAME folks)?

This is not the deliberate behavior.  I believe prohibiting the
mixture of different address families (for a gateway) is the right
thing.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp


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