christophe preguica wrote: > What should be the behavior of a router when it receives an IPv6 packet > with Hop Limit = 0 ?
If it's destined to the router itself, accept it. Otherwise, drop it, and send the ICMPv6 error if the packet wasn't multicast. > Does IPv6 have the same behavior as for IPv4 TTL ? Yes it should be the same. > (Extract from RFC 2463 -- ICMPv6) > > 3.3 Time Exceeded Message > > If a router receives a packet with a Hop Limit of zero, I think the above phrase is incorrect, since it contradicts 2460 as you pointed out. > or a router >�decrements a packet's Hop Limit to zero, it MUST discard the packet >�and send an ICMPv6 Time Exceeded message with Code 0 to the source of >�the packet. �This indicates either a routing loop or too small an >�initial Hop Limit value. -Dave -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
