>> a
>> unknown Extension header will stop the processing chain.
>
> This does not address Ran's comment: why would we ever need a new
> extension header? Why aren't the Hop-by-Hop Options and Destination
> Options extension headers sufficient? Neither of the drafts above motivate
> this need.
R
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:45:27 +0100, Hagen Paul Pfeifer
wrote:
> * Hing-Kam (Kam) Lam | 2010-11-17 05:23:47 [+0530]:
>
>>The draft does not do that. I dont know which version you have been
>>reading. You should read draft-ietf-6man-exthdr and
>>draft-bhatia-6man-update-ipv6-ext-hdr to get an idea
One final note: GIEH will provide a transparent extension header container.
The kernel must know the GIEH extension header, the inner extension header
can be everything. If the Stack know GIEH he can skip it - including the
(possible unknown) encapsulated header.
No new extension header types must
* Hing-Kam (Kam) Lam | 2010-11-17 05:23:47 [+0530]:
>The draft does not do that. I dont know which version you have been
>reading. You should read draft-ietf-6man-exthdr and
>draft-bhatia-6man-update-ipv6-ext-hdr to get an idea of the problem
>that this draft is attempting to solve.
Hing is absol
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:32 AM, RJ Atkinson wrote:
>
> I do NOT support this draft, for one quite simple reason:
>
> ** The assumption of this draft is that there exists some
> IP option type that is NEITHER (a) hop-by-hop nor
> (b) end-to-end in nature.
>
> I have never heard of such an opt
Hi again Brian:
I'm taking one thing back though. Unless I miss something, there's
probably no need to recomputed any checksum even in transport mode,
since the next header is that of the ULP...
Pascal
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7011357/
> -Original Message-
> From: ipv6-boun...@ie
I do NOT support this draft, for one quite simple reason:
** The assumption of this draft is that there exists some
IP option type that is NEITHER (a) hop-by-hop nor
(b) end-to-end in nature.
I have never heard of such an option, but if someone
can provide a concrete example I'm eager to
