At 3:20 PM +0700 2/16/01, Robert Elz wrote:
> From: "Paul Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | (By the way Robert, are the ICMP "tell me your site local addresses"
> | and ICMP "site local source exiting the site" messages
> | you mention in your suggestion in existing drafts, or are these new
> | messages you are making up?)
>
>The former is certainly new. I thought that the latter existed already
>(and may in the form of destination unreachable code 3), but this is
>one which probably deserves an ICMP code of its own (that is: packet
>attempting to exit limited scope").
Yes, we did add a code point to ICMP Destination Unreachable for
"beyond scope of source address" (Code 2). However, just now when
I went to look for it, I discovered that the ICMPv6 update ID in which
that code point was added has timed out of the ID directory. Ooops.
>(code 2, "admin prohibited" is another possibility,...
"admin prohibited" is Code 1.
Steve
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