Robert Elz writes:
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:56:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> | I sure see a difference. If my stack does that for me
> | I always have the option to cd /usr/src/linux/net/ipv6
> | and make it stop doing that; YMMV. In a router, I stop
> | having that option.
>
> If your router does it, and you don't want it to, you reconfigure the
> router, or if that's not possible, you replace it. If it isn't your
> choice to change that, then you're probably attempting to defeat the
> policies of your local net.
Um, no. I don't want my telephant's local policy --
which is largely to be as inflexible as
possible -- to effect end to end semantics. I
also don't want them to install net nanny's or
other intelligent network junk either.
> | I can. It's the slippery slope to MIDCOM.
>
> I have learned to largely ignore slippery slope arguments. They're
> mostly FUD.
By all means, ignore away. Lots of people think
that it's a bunch of FUD about NAT's too. They're
by and large completely ignorant.
> | If we *really* want to preserve options here,
> | let's incoprorate Christian's suggestion that
> | we save a couple of bits out of the field which
> | define the sematics of the flow lable.
>
> Are you paying any attention to what is being suggested? Really?
> What I have been describing ie *exactly* what is in their draft
> (as it stands now, before any input from the SLC meeting, or this
> discussion on the list has had a chance to affect it).
Yes, yes, big deal. They wanted to support
first hop rewrite, it got a negative reaction
and from what I can tell they're not wedded to
that piece. Do you actually disagree, or are
you just being argumentative?
Mike
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