Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Hi All, I think this is not a solution. The problems of routing header type 0 well know by the community since long time. This has been documented for more than 2-3 years know (raised 4 years ago). Are there any consensus, that type 0 routing header should be deprecated? Until that it is

Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:41:09AM +0200, Mohacsi Janos wrote: I think this is not a solution. The problems of routing header type 0 well know by the community since long time. This has been documented for more than 2-3 years know (raised 4 years ago). Are there any consensus, that type 0

Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread Remi Denis-Courmont
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:24:08 +0200, Gert Doering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, one could argue that the standard isn't very well-written then - a machine that is a *host* should NEVER forward packets, period. That's a BSD bug, not a standard bug. The IPv6 specification says host must process

Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:24:08 +0200, Gert Doering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, one could argue that the standard isn't very well-written then - a machine that is a *host* should NEVER forward packets, period. bzzzt. with IPv6 spec NODE (host + router) has to handle routing

Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Vixie
... The problems of routing header type 0 well know by the community since long time. This has been documented for more than 2-3 years know (raised 4 years ago). Are there any consensus, that type 0 routing header should be deprecated? ... yes. nobody anywhere still thinks that this is

Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
... The problems of routing header type 0 well know by the community since long time. This has been documented for more than 2-3 years know (raised 4 years ago). Are there any consensus, that type 0 routing header should be deprecated? ... yes. nobody anywhere still thinks that this is

Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:41:09 +0200 (CEST), Mohacsi Janos wrote: The current patch provided by OpenBSD/FreeBSD makes *BSD IPv6 implemenation non-conformant to standard. Sometimes violating the standard is the only reasonable thing for an implementor to do. The (IPv4) stack I worked on back in

Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

2007-04-25 Thread Tim Enos
Yes, absolutely. Rob, I couldn't agree more. From: Rob Austein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/04/25 Wed AM 09:13:36 CDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ipv6@ietf.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues At Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:41:09 +0200 (CEST), Mohacsi Janos wrote: The

Question for IPv6 w.g. on [Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues]

2007-04-25 Thread Bob Hinden
[trimming this to just the IPv6 w.g.] We think the question for the IPv6 working group on this topic is does the working group want to do anything to address the issues raised about the Type 0 routing header. Possible actions include: 1) Deprecate all usage of RH0 2) Recommend that RH0

Re: Question for IPv6 w.g. on [Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues]

2007-04-25 Thread Perry Lorier
Bob Hinden wrote: [trimming this to just the IPv6 w.g.] We think the question for the IPv6 working group on this topic is does the working group want to do anything to address the issues raised about the Type 0 routing header. Possible actions include: 1) Deprecate all usage of RH0 2)