Re: RFC 2460 issue

[Fred Templin <ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com>]

Don't know about the sending host, but perhaps the next forwarding
hop should send an ICMPv6 parameter problem message (RFC 2463,
section 3.4) if it gets a packet with Hop Count = 0?

Trouble is, the original source of the IPv6 packet might be different
than the previous hop which made the mistake forwarding the packet
with Hop Count = 0. So, the ICMPv6 parameter problem message
might  be of little value to the original source.

Fred
ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com


Alain Durand wrote:

> I had this question yesterday and I couldn't find an answer in RFC2460:
>
> Is it valid for a host to send a packet with Hop Count set to zero?
>
>     - Alain.
>
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