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-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go
index 629d1818e..37c169a5d 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go
@@ -646,18 +646,21 @@ func (*protocol) LinkAddressProtocol() tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber {
// LinkAddressRequest implements stack.LinkAddressResolver.
func (*protocol) LinkAddressRequest(addr, localAddr tcpip.Address, remoteLinkAddr tcpip.LinkAddress, linkEP stack.LinkEndpoint) *tcpip.Error {
- snaddr := header.SolicitedNodeAddr(addr)
-
// TODO(b/148672031): Use stack.FindRoute instead of manually creating the
// route here. Note, we would need the nicID to do this properly so the right
// NIC (associated to linkEP) is used to send the NDP NS message.
- r := &stack.Route{
+ r := stack.Route{
LocalAddress: localAddr,
- RemoteAddress: snaddr,
+ RemoteAddress: addr,
RemoteLinkAddress: remoteLinkAddr,
}
+
+ // If a remote address is not already known, then send a multicast
+ // solicitation since multicast addresses have a static mapping to link
+ // addresses.
if len(r.RemoteLinkAddress) == 0 {
- r.RemoteLinkAddress = header.EthernetAddressFromMulticastIPv6Address(snaddr)
+ r.RemoteAddress = header.SolicitedNodeAddr(addr)
+ r.RemoteLinkAddress = header.EthernetAddressFromMulticastIPv6Address(r.RemoteAddress)
}
pkt := stack.NewPacketBuffer(stack.PacketBufferOptions{
@@ -683,7 +686,7 @@ func (*protocol) LinkAddressRequest(addr, localAddr tcpip.Address, remoteLinkAdd
})
// TODO(stijlist): count this in ICMP stats.
- return linkEP.WritePacket(r, nil /* gso */, ProtocolNumber, pkt)
+ return linkEP.WritePacket(&r, nil /* gso */, ProtocolNumber, pkt)
}
// ResolveStaticAddress implements stack.LinkAddressResolver.