On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:53:26PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Francis Dupont wrote:
> > In your previous mail you wrote:
> >
> > RFC2460 (The IPv6 Spec) assumes that all _nodes_ (note not routers)
> > forward source routed packets.
> >
> > => this is not true, hosts are not supposed to forward source routed
> > packets to other nodes. Many implementations have a flag which enforces
> > this behavior by default because disabling source route breaks things
> > and enabling forwarding breaks security).
>
> Please read RFC2460 4.4. Nowhere does it say that hosts should not
> forward source-routed packets. E.g.:
>
> If, after processing a Routing header of a received packet, an
> intermediate node determines that the packet is to be forwarded onto
> a link whose link MTU is less than the size of the packet, the node
> must discard the packet and send an ICMP Packet Too Big message to
> the packet's Source Address.
> [...]
>
> note 'node' not 'router'; also forward 'forward'.
note "intermediate". Mere hosts are by definition never intermediate.
-is
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