Re: ICMP rate limit discussion 1 Re: Section 2.4, item (f) of draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-04.txt

2004-08-19 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Alex Conta wrote: > > As Pekka already said that this issue is not just with > > ICMPv6 but with any bad traffic. For what all bad traffic > > a router should perform rate limiting for is a general > > question and should be completely outside the scope of > > the ICMPv6 Prot

ICMP rate limit discussion 1 Re: Section 2.4, item (f) of draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-04.txt

2004-08-18 Thread Alex Conta
Mukesh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, [...] If the router starts looking the protocol type field in the IPv6 header and behave differently for each type of packet, IMHO it will become a firewall or a packet filter :) Routers are designed for traffic policing and shaping, and so the router would