On 2011-01-16 11:59, Hing-Kam (Kam) Lam wrote: >> But it is a very open question whether any middlebox will bother to >> do this. >> >>> So the one thing this proposal will *not* do is allow new extension headers >>> to cross the Internet transparently. All it might do is cause the firewalls >>> to dig one layer deeper before discarding the packet. >> This is at best poorly phrased. :-) >> >> If the firewall will just dig one layer deeper and then discard >> anyway, what is the point? > > It wouldnt in all the cases - not when the Hdr type is 00.
If the firewall's policy is to dig deeper when the type is 00, it will do so, regardless of what some RFC may say. Firewalls are not known for obeying RFCs. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
