IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Tue Apr 24 16:22:24 CEST 2007


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:09:32PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> >and the BSDs need to do a bit of homework (should never forward packets if
> >ip6.forwarding is 0, and it's surprising that pf(4) can't filter on RH0s).
> 
> that is not a problem of the BSDs. That's a problem of the RFC, which
> is speaking of 'node' and not 'router' in first place.

So why does that make the BSDs unable to pf(4) these packets...?

(Well... I agree that the wording could be a bit more clear, but seems
that everybody *else* did it interpret differently...?)

Gert Doering
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