On 6/12/2013 2:25 PM, Ole Troan wrote:
Joe,FWIW, I wouldn't mind: - IPv6 *should* limit its header chains to (some reasonable limit) What I expect when that's not the case: - SOME packets get through, perhaps more slowly - when the router can't keep up, it can drop the overload This isn't any different from many other things, e.g., when a router can't keep up with IPv6 packets that overload an egress. However, anything that says "if the chain is >X, then drop" is broken, period. At some point, if you want to play "IPv6 router", you need to earn the title.an IPv6 router compliant with RFC2460 does not inspect the header chain.
That cannot be true; there are headers after IPv6 but before fragmentation that are hop-by-hop.
Joe -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
