RE: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

["Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi at boeing.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Hain [mailto:alh-ietf at tndh.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:52 PM
> 
> As I recall the primary goal was to allow a system to state a specific
> transit path because it was the one that the subscriber had a 
> contract with.
> Think dialing a local number to get a specific long-distance carrier's
> presence, rather than paying the extortion rate that the 
> local provider
> charges for their random selection of long-distance.

That makes good sense for the sending host. But the receiving host would
have no reason to forward anything beyond the destination address of the
packet, no matter what the extension header says. Except for the case of
multiple IP addresses in that host, which I had not considered.

If Steve Deering wanted all hosts, whether set to forward packets or
not, to process extension headers, my only conclusion is that he was
thinking of multiple IP addresses in that host.

Just trying to figure out what the corner cases are.

Bert

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