IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header issues

Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino itojun at itojun.org
Tue Apr 24 00:28:03 CEST 2007


> 	the issue is rather horrifying, it could be the doomsday of the entire
> 	Internet.
> 
> 	RFC1883 had upper limit in # of hops, 23 (strict/loose bitmap).
> 	when Deering removed the field, he forgot to put the upper limit.
> 
> 	also, there's no limit in number of routing header present on a packet.

	i have been trying to reach authors but no contact/response yet.
	i'm really worried.

itojun



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