Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] vxlan: allow multiple VXLANs with same VNI for IPv6 link-local addresses

From: Jiri Benc
Date: Wed Mar 15 2017 - 11:24:37 EST


On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:29:29 +0100, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> While ensuring that the destination address is link-local iff the source
> address is would also be an option, it didn't seem too useful as the
> destination address will be a multicast address anyways in "normal" VXLAN
> configurations. If we really want to check this, I guess the valid
> combinations are:
>
> source link-local - destination link-local UC
> source link-local - destination link-local MC
> source global/... - destination global/... UC
> source global/... - destination any MC
>
> Does this make sense?

It does.

Thanks!

Jiri