=?windows-1252?q?R=E9mi_Denis-Courmont?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Le mercredi 13 juin 2007, Thomas Narten a écrit :
> > To be clear, if even a small fraction of firewalls get deployed that
> > just block all traffic with a RH, MIPv6 breaks and becomes
> > undeployable in practice. For EVERYONE!

> The answer to the upcoming question must be obvious to many people here, 
> but anyway not to me: Does blocking RH2 breaks Mobile Nodes in your 
> network, or does it break both Mobile Nodes *AND* Correspondant
> Nodes?

It breaks mobile nodes. The HA sends traffic to the MN using a type 2
RH header. That is, instead of "tunneling", e.g., via IP in IP, the HA
forwards packets to the MN at its temporary Care-of-Address via a
type 2 RH header. The HA can't communicate with the MN if such traffic
is filtered.

Hence, if such filtering becomes even occasionaly common on the open
Internet, MIPv6 will become unusable/undeployable in practice.

Thomas

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