[Olsr-dev] olsr 0.5.6-r8 ipv6 multicast

Alina Friedrichsen (spam-protected)
Thu Feb 11 23:44:10 CET 2010


> > (this would lead to an filter, that elimates only routes to linklocals that
> > are more than one hop away)
> We should definitely put the filter into the master branch, but I'm not 
> completely sure we should do it in the stable one. It SHOULD be harmless, but 
> I'm not completely convinced.
> 
> What do you think ?

I think this is an good idea and harmless in setups that are used
standards-compliant.
But we should filter all routes to link-local addresses. Link-local
addresses can/should not be used reach far away nodes. If you want do
so, you should use unique local addresses for example.

Alina







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