Re: rfc2292bis: interaction with home address option

[Bill Sommerfeld]

> If you really need to receive both addresses for some reason, the care-of
> address is the one that should be obtainable only via IPV6_RECVDSTOPTS.
> Logically, the IP layer in the correspondent host should swap the received
> home address and care-of address before passing the packet to an upper
> layer.

This sort of thing gives us security types hives..

Particularly when it comes to knowing which address is which, if, for
instance, rfc2401-style policy checks could conceivably happen either
before, or after, the swapping...

                                        - Bill
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