Hello,
At Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:53:49 +0200,
Francis Dupont wrote:
>
> In your previous mail you 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.
>
> => two points:
> - should process is too strong, my feeling is "should implement the
> processing of Routing Headers"
> - to process and to forward are two different things (forward is stronger).
> IMHO the default policy for hosts should be process but not forward.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do you mean as follows:
Hosts know this extention header is Routing Header, but do nothing (just discard).
regards,
-mk
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