ipv6: Allow IPv4-mapped address as next-hop
Made kernel accept IPv6 routes with IPv4-mapped address as next-hop. It is possible to configure IP interfaces with IPv4-mapped addresses, and one can add IPv6 routes for IPv4-mapped destinations/prefixes, yet prior to this fix the kernel returned an EINVAL when attempting to add an IPv6 route with an IPv4-mapped address as a nexthop/gateway. RFC 4798 (a proposed standard RFC) uses IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops, thus in order to support that type of address configuration the kernel needs to allow IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops. Signed-off-by: Erik Nordmark <nordmark@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Gilligan <gilligan@arista.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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