2003-06-07 Paul Jakma <paul@dishone.st>
* (zebra/rtadvc.): can not set checksum for ICMPV6, see:
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
Subject: [zebra 11052] setsockopt(IPV6_CHECKSUM) does not work for ICMPv6
socket
setsockopt(IPV6_CHECKSUM) does not work for ICMPv6 socket.
RFC2292 may not be clear enough about it (it talks about raw socket
and ICMPv6 socket mixed up), but the next revision
(draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis-02.txt) is very clear about it.
> An attempt to set IPV6_CHECKSUM for an ICMPv6 socket will fail.
diff --git a/zebra/rtadv.c b/zebra/rtadv.c
index 9dcee8e..ab0d49f 100644
--- a/zebra/rtadv.c
+++ b/zebra/rtadv.c
@@ -430,9 +430,6 @@
ret = setsockopt_ipv6_pktinfo (sock, 1);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
- ret = setsockopt_ipv6_checksum (sock, 2);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
ret = setsockopt_ipv6_multicast_loop (sock, 0);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;