Hello, Jeroen,

On 08/19/2014 10:18 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Hence we should formulate text a bit like:
> 
> 8<------------------------
> When forwarding or receiving an ICMP error packet:
>  - The IP destination of the packet MUST match the source address
>    represented in the ICMP error packet.
> 
>  - The ICMP error packet's destination address must qualify uRPF rules
>    for the same interface as the source address.[1]
> 
> As the verified packets are ICMP errors, when the verification fails the
> packet MUST be dropped, logging is recommended.
> 
> Due to the checking inside the ICMP portion of a packet:
>   Access-routers, firewalls and hosts MUST perform these checks.
>   Core-routers SHOULD perform these checks
> 
> [1] When ICMP-dst address matches IP-src the check should already have
> been performed by the standard uRPF check.
> ------------------------>8

Should we include something alng this lines to the countermeasures
listed in draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world, or were you thinking
about something else?

Thanks!

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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