Re: Hop Limit

[Ole Troan <otroan at employees.org>]

> RFC 4443 describes how to deal with an IPv6 packet with hop limit field set
> to 0 when a router receives it.
>
> RFC4443, Section 3.3:
>   If a router receives a packet with a Hop Limit of zero, or if a
>   router decrements a packet's Hop Limit to zero, it MUST discard the
>   packet and originate an ICMPv6 Time Exceeded message with Code 0 to
>   the source of the packet.
>
> I didn't find what to do for a host. Is it supposed to drop the packet or
> send an ICMP6 Time Exceeded message?

process as normal.

/ot