NSAP Address IPv6 option

2005-07-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
RFC 1888 defined a destination option called NSAP Address with option type code 11-0-00011 = 195 decimal, C3 hexadecimal. Unfortunately, the IANA Considerations in RFC 4048 faild to discuss this option. It is still listed at http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-parameters My opinion is that it

Re: ICMP Security Problem?

2005-07-11 Thread Fernando Gont
At 01:58 p.m. 07/07/2005, Bob Hinden wrote: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382 There is a thread on /. about this today as well. I think most of this is old news. The new ICMPv6 update that is being worked on has a major revision to the Security Considerations section that should cover these

Re: MLDv2 and RFC2461bis

2005-07-11 Thread Brian Haberman
On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:54, Elwyn Davies wrote: Late breaking thought... Paragraph 2 of Section 7.2.1 of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-03.txt says that joining and leaving the solicited-node multicast group SHOULD be done using MLD (and the reference is to RFC2710 i.e., MLDv1). We now have

Re: MLDv2 and RFC2461bis

2005-07-11 Thread Stig Venaas
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:44:20PM -0400, Brian Haberman wrote: [...] The main, current benefit of MLDv2 is to support source-specific multicast (SSM). However, the NDP use of multicast is non-SSM (ASM or any-source multicast) and does not need MLDv2 capability in order to function

Re: MLDv2 and RFC2461bis

2005-07-11 Thread Brian Haberman
On Jul 11, 2005, at 18:06, Elwyn Davies wrote: My understanding that as well as a reference to MLDv2 we would need to mention that if any of the routers are 'legacy' that support only MLDv1, then any MLDv2 routers would have to have their configuration flags set to make them operate in MLDv1

Re: MLDv2 and RFC2461bis

2005-07-11 Thread Stig Venaas
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:16:03PM -0400, Brian Haberman wrote: On Jul 11, 2005, at 18:06, Elwyn Davies wrote: My understanding that as well as a reference to MLDv2 we would need to mention that if any of the routers are 'legacy' that support only MLDv1, then any MLDv2 routers would have

RE: MLDv2 and RFC2461bis

2005-07-11 Thread Soliman, Hesham
My understanding that as well as a reference to MLDv2 we would need to mention that if any of the routers are 'legacy' that support only MLDv1, then any MLDv2 routers would have to have their configuration flags set to make them operate in MLDv1 compatibility mode. Hosts