From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755685AbYLIXs6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:48:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753565AbYLIXsq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:48:46 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50478 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753522AbYLIXso (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:48:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:48:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20081209.154845.195219989.davem@davemloft.net> To: jsembera@suse.cz Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: silence log messages for locally generated multicast From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20081208122557.GB4498@alaris.suse.cz> References: <20081208122557.GB4498@alaris.suse.cz> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Sembera Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:25:57 +0100 > This patch fixes minor annoyance during transmission of unsolicited > neighbor advertisements from userspace to multicast addresses (as > far as I can see in RFC, this is allowed and the similar functionality > for IPv4 has been in arping for a long time). > > Outgoing multicast packets get reinserted into local processing as if they > are received from the network. The machine thus sees its own NA and fills > the logs with error messages. This patch removes the message if NA has been > generated locally. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Sembera Patch applied, thanks Jan.