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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2006 09:50:37 -0700
From:      "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: nd6_lookup prints bogus messages with point to point devices
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In-Reply-To: <y7vk68eqtwf.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
References:  <20060506172742.GM15353@hoeg.nl> <445EC341.60406@freebsd.org> <20060508065841.GN15353@hoeg.nl> <y7v7j4k623s.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> <y7vk68eqtwf.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>

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At Mon, 22 May 2006 18:40:48 +0900,
jinmei wrote:

> Could you try the patch attached below?  It's for 6.1-RELEASE, but I
> guess it's pretty easy to apply to CURRENT.
> 
> The essential reason of this problem is that the latest kernel regards
> the destination address of a point-to-point interface as a "neighbor"
> wrt Neighbor Discovery while a neighbor cache entry is not created on
> configuring the interface with the addresses.  I believe it makes
> sense to treat the destination address as a neighbor, so the fix is to
> make sure that the cache entry is created when the interface is
> configured.

I can apply and commit this after a bit of testing.

Late,r
George



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