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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2006 13:43:01 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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
Message-ID:  <y7vy7wt9wru.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <m2hd3i3swy.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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> <m2hd3i3swy.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>

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>>>>> On Mon, 22 May 2006 09:50:37 -0700, 
>>>>> "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> said:

>> 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.

Thanks, please do to.  I believe the patch also fixes this problem
report:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/93220

So, could you also confirm this and give feedback to (or close) the
report?  (I'll send a follow-up message to the report by myself it
it's appropriate).

Thanks,

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



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