ICMP messages are for a purpose if we remove SLs they will be used as today which we understand to manage and operate networks. That is not the case for SLs.
Your arguing that apples and oranges are the same logically and they are not and have completely different properties. In fact SLs have other properties that cause network failures too. Too many quite frankly. And many of us have known this for years. Maybe now that it is being discussed in an operational WG we can put some controls on them till we better understand them. /jim [Have you ever seen the rain coming down on a sunny day] > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Zill [mailto:bzill@;microsoft.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:16 AM > To: Bound, Jim > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Limiting the Use of Site-Local > > > > Jim Bound writes: > > > > A node could send to a dst addr with less scope in its src. If the > > packet goes far enough it can never return. > > The packet will hit a router which will refuse to forward it. > This is exactly the same as a node sending a packet with > inadequate hop count to reach the destination. In both cases > the sending node gets back an ICMP error message (scope > exceeded or hop count exceeded). There is nothing strange here. > > --Brian > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
