Hop Limit zero processing for a Router

2010-11-03 Thread Timothy Winters
Hello, At the UNH-IOL we recently received a router implementation that discards a packet when it receives a packet with a hop limit of zero. Based on the following quote from RFC 2460, The packet is discarded if Hop Limit is decremented to zero. If router is the end-node it should

Re: Hop Limit zero processing for a Router

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Haberman
Hi Tim, On 11/3/10 8:00 AM, Thomas Narten wrote: Hi Tim At the UNH-IOL we recently received a router implementation that discards a packet when it receives a packet with a hop limit of zero. Based on the following quote from RFC 2460, The packet is discarded if

Re: Hop Limit zero processing for a Router

2010-11-03 Thread Timothy Winters
Hi Thomas and Brian, Thanks for the help. I will discuss the matter with the implementor. My understanding is that this was a software decision based on there reading of 4443. Regards, Tim On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Brian Haberman wrote: Hi Tim, On 11/3/10 8:00 AM, Thomas