On 6/5/07, Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As an operator, I do not wish to buy routers that are DoS'able or whose control processor CPU resources can be wasted on inspecting transiting traffic. "Punting packets to the slow path" is one primary thing that a high-speed router should not have to do. I think I'm not alone in the operator field with this sentiment.
you are not alone.
Oh yeah, hop-by-hop extension header should be retired as well :-)
i hate to sound heretical, but perhaps having an option to 'not process', one to 'process' and one to 'drop if having' is called for? I need to read the jabley-draft I think now too. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
