Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> writes: > OK, something like
> Although the flow label is defined as immutable once it has > been set to a non-zero value, implementers should be aware > that it is an unprotected field that could have been accidentally > or intentionally changed en route. Implementations MUST > take appropriate steps to protect themselves from being > vulnerable to denial of service and other types of attack that > could result. This sounds about right. To put this in perspective, routers can't assume the source or destination address in a packet has not been modified since leaving the originator. But that doesn't cause us all to Freak Out! :-) Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
