IPv6 address classification

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:14:46PM +0100, lex wrote:
> I am interested to hear whether the strictness of the
> ipv6_classify(ip_addr *a) function would be considered a "bug" or a
> "feature", but from what I can tell, quagga and openbgpd do not classify
> addresses in such a strict fashion, and this can produce problems in
> mixed environments where quagga/openbgpd peers may try and send such
> routes to bird6.

> Perhaps any address that is not link-scoped should be implicitly
> classified as global? At the very least, receiving a "bogus route"
> should not result in all existing routes from that peer being dropped.

I am not sure about the classification of such strange routes, but
it definitely shouldn't affect other routes from that peer. I will
check that.

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