Hi, Joel, On 04/02/2011 12:11 a.m., Joel M. Halpern wrote: > Lets be a little careful here: > 1) If we say "No Extension Headers for intermediate processing", and "No > Hop By Hop Options", then we are saying that we do not want any > extensions intended to be processed in intermediate routers. While I > personally like that, I want to make really sure that we understand that > is what we are saying.
This is the case with v4 already, and there's no reason to expect the v6-equivalent case to be any different. > 2) I have been told that many large rotuers have a setting that causes > them to ignore the hop by hop options field. Yes. Some event drop packets with options in v4. So, again, there's no reason to expect the v6 equivalent to be any different. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
