David A possible problem with this would be intervening extension headers even though the transport was SCTP. Would you want to filter on those headers as well?
-vlad David Lehmann wrote: > > Y'all, > > RFC 2292bis, section 3.2 describes ICMPv6 type filtering. > Would it be useful to have protocol (Next header) filtering > on an ICMP socket? > > e.g. I am developing SCTP and would only like to receive ICMP > _error_ messages for SCTP. i.e. I would like only packets in which > the offending IPv6 packet has a Next Header field == IPPROTO_SCTP > in the IPv6 header. > > -David > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Vladislav Yasevich IPv6 Project Lead Compaq Computer Corp. 110 Spit Brook Rd ZK03-3/T07 Tel: (603) 884-1079 Nashua, NH 03062 Fax: (435) 514-6884 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
