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
> 

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