Hi Richard

Agreed but in extended the whiteboard is distributed so if your packet
get out the wrong edge router it would filter them out...

Pascal

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Kelsey [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: vendredi 29 mai 2009 16:56
>To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [6lowpan] source address validation in ND 03
>
>   Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:55:10 +0200
>   From: "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[email protected]>
>
>   The current draft inherits source address validation text from the
>   backbone router draft that's meant to prevent nodes in the LoWPAN
from
>   using any address as source.
>
>   section 7.5. about forwarding by Edge Routers has:
>
>   "
>   Upon receiving packets on one of its LoWPAN interfaces, the Edge
>   Router checks whether it has a binding for the source address.  If
>   it does, then the Edge Router can forward the packet; otherwise,
>   the Edge Router MUST discard the packet.
>   "
>
>   That was fine for a backbone router in a mesh under
>   situation but that seems to falls short for route over,
>   because in that case the Edge Router is not necessarily
>   the first hop:
>
>The check described in the passage above seems to be
>guarding against the use of a source address that is not
>bound within the LoWPAN.  It doesn't appear to be concerned
>with a LoWPAN node using a source address that is bound to
>some other node in the same LoWPAN.  For the former,
>guarding against the use of an unbound source address, I
>don't think it matters whether the Edge Router is the first
>hop or not.
>                                  -Richard Kelsey
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