Bug 1884

Summary:	ICMPv6 does not check if the source address is "compatible" when issuing a reply
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella>
Component:	ipv6	Assignee:	Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	ns-bugs
Priority:	P5
Version:	ns-3-dev
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Tommaso Pecorella 2014-03-17 02:48:46 UTC

In other terms: you can ping a global address from a link-local address and you'll receive an Echo Reply.

I'm not 100% sure that this is legal. I'm fairly sure it isn't, indeed.

Comment 1 Tommaso Pecorella 2014-04-12 16:23:53 UTC

RFC 4443 doesn't say anything about it.
As a consequence, I have to assume that this behaviour is not forbidden.