Hi Fred, I agree that an ICMPv6 message should be sent by the router but I think it should be the Time Exceeded message (RFC 2463, section 3.3) rather than a parameter problem (section 3.4) message.
Regards Suresh On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Fred Templin wrote: >Don't know about the sending host, but perhaps the next forwarding >hop should send an ICMPv6 parameter problem message (RFC 2463, >section 3.4) if it gets a packet with Hop Count = 0? > >Trouble is, the original source of the IPv6 packet might be different >than the previous hop which made the mistake forwarding the packet >with Hop Count = 0. So, the ICMPv6 parameter problem message >might be of little value to the original source. > >Fred >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Alain Durand wrote: > >> I had this question yesterday and I couldn't find an answer in RFC2460: >> >> Is it valid for a host to send a packet with Hop Count set to zero? >> >> - Alain. >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
