option 212 for 6RD

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Tue Jan 15 09:55:46 CET 2013


On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Tore Anderson wrote:

> The 6RD BR does not need to maintain state to determine whether or not a 
> packet is TCP SYN, it only has to look into the layer 4 header. And if 
> you're doing any stateless ACLs such as dropping 25/tcp or 137/tcp and 
> so on, it's doing that already anyway.

Well, Cisco 7600 is one platform I would imagine wouldn't have this 
functionality. It doesn't seem to exist on the CPU platforms like 7200 
either. At least the 7200 could easily do it if they wanted to.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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