The aproach that we have taken is to introduce a tuning knob for
for forwarding traffic that's addressed to us, such as traffic with
routing headers.
All nodes process the routing header, but the traffic is not forwarded
unless the forwarding feature is enabled.
The feature is off by default in hosts and on by default in routers,
so I wouldn't really have a problem with specifiying this in a document.
-vlad
Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Richard Draves wrote:
> > > I think it was quite widely accepted (at least nobody
> > > objected, thus I said "consensus") that _hosts_, at least by
> > > default, should not forward source-routed packets.
> >
> > My understanding of RFC 2460 is that all nodes, meaning both hosts and
> > routers, should process Routing Headers.
>
> It is mine as well, but that still doesn't make it sane or safe behaviour;
> which is why I was gauging opinions on 1) how you interpret RFC2460 and 2)
> how you should implement RFC2460 wrt. routing headers.
>
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