IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Gert Doering wrote:

> 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.

ok I should have replied only to... ;-)

>>> and the BSDs need to do a bit of homework (should never forward packets if
>>> ip6.forwarding is 0,


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

That's a different issue.

The better question would be - why are you asking NOW?
The correct answer would be "send patches";)

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT