From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261884AbVCLBmb (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:42:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbVCLBfD (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:35:03 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9350 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261884AbVCLBdR (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:33:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:33:08 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Felix von Leitner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10 Message-Id: <20050311173308.7a076e8f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050311202122.GA13205@fefe.de> References: <20050311202122.GA13205@fefe.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Added netdev cc) Felix von Leitner wrote: > > Now about IPv6: npush and npoll are two applications I wrote. npush > sends multicast announcements and opens a TCP socket. npoll receives > the multicast announcement and connects to the source IP/port/scope_id > of the announcement. If both are run on the same machine, npoll sees > the link local address of eth0 as source IP, and the interface number of > eth0 as scope_id. So far so good. Trying to connect() however hangs. > Since this has been broken in different ways for as long as I can > remember in Linux, and I keep complaining about it every half a year or > so. Can't someone fix this once and for all? IPv4 checks whether we > are connecting to our own address and reroutes through loopback, why > can't IPv6? >