> From: Rami Lehtonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] > There was also some discussion at MAGMA working group that if the edge > router starts to filter MLD Reports coming from a host (host > authorization), > it would be nice to notify the host that such filtering is applied, e.g. > with ICMPv6 Administratively Prohibited. MLD Reports are however sent to > multicast address and thus the router can't use ICMPv6 (spec says that > error > message MUST NOT be sent as a result of receiving a packet destined to an > IPv6 multicast address). So, what about one more exception to the ICMPv6 > spec in addition to the Packet Too Big and Parameter Problem messages?
I don't see the problem here. The admin prohibited message would be sent to the source of the MLD report, not the destination, and the source is a unicast address. -Dave -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
