On 06/12/2013 11:25 PM, Ole Troan wrote: >> However, anything that says "if the chain is >X, then drop" is broken, >> period. At some point, if you want to play "IPv6 router", you need to earn >> the title. > > an IPv6 router compliant with RFC2460 does not inspect the header chain. > > I'm not aware of any router that drop packets with extension headers. > I'm aware of network operators applying filtering policy that results in > packets with extension headers being dropped.
IIRC, someone reported that Cisco ASA drop v6 packets with extension headers by default..... > just to be clear I'm not against the IETF documenting e.g. in a BCP, what the > longest expected header chain should be. Well, that seems more std track than bcp to me. Cheers, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
