Re: I-D ACTION:draft-jabley-ipv6-rh0-is-evil-00.txt

["George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn at neville-neil.com>]

At Thu, 10 May 2007 09:50:01 -0400,
Brian Haberman wrote:
> > The sentence could be modified in :
> > 
> > "Compliant IPv6 hosts and routers MUST NOT process RH0 in packets
> >   addressed to them. Those packets MUST be dropped without further
> >   processing. In particular, the value of the Segments Left field
> >   MUST not be considered."
> > 
> 
> This is much clearer and easier to implement.
> 

Though I am not a router vendor I am the person who has to handle this
on FreeBSD.  I like the above sentence as well.  I think inspecting
the packet contents when a packet passes through any sort of
forwarding path is not what we want.  If someone wants to actively
filter these types of packet from their network that's what a firewall
or packet filter is for.

Best,
George

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