Re: RIPng advertisement hop count 1 (should be 255 per RFC)

2013-06-24 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Simon Dickhoven wrote: Alright. After a lot of digging I got a working RIPng hopcount check. See attached patch file. Thanks for the patch and the thorough description. ... 2.1.1) In order to actually receive this additional information I had to

Re: RIPng advertisement hop count 1 (should be 255 per RFC)

2013-06-20 Thread Simon Dickhoven
Alright. After a lot of digging I got a working RIPng hopcount check. See attached patch file. Here's what I did: 1) In order to reduce any deleterious effects of my subsequent modifications I first introduced a new socket flag in lib/socket.h. #define SKF_HLIM_RX 8 /* Report Hop

Re: RIPng advertisement hop count 1 (should be 255 per RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread Simon Dickhoven
Hi, again If you were paying attention (unlike myself) you may have noticed that the below fix doesn't actually make BIRD RFC-compliant. Rather, it makes BIRD interoperate with other RFC-compliant RIPng routers. After all, the RFC doesn't state that route advertisements must be sent with an