On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:39:32PM +1000, Vishwas Manral wrote:
> Hi Ignatious,
>
> Quoting the RFC2460:
>
> With one exception, of Hop-by-hop extension headers are not examined
> or processed by any node along a packet's delivery path, until the packet
> reaches the node (or each of the set of nodes, in the case of multicast)
> identified in the Destination Address field of the IPv6 header.
>
> So in a way you are right, but again it we may want to test the
> routing path from any router in the network to any other router in the
> network.
Well, if those routers aren't *your* routers, I'm afraid you'll need
the owners' coöperation to the extend that they install RH4-capable
firmware.
Not much different from the IPv4 situation, I guess?
-is
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