Hi Tom,

draft-ietf-6man-sids takes care of that [1].

As Michael suggested, tcpdump could use this block as a default with a CLI
override for operators using a different one.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-6man-sids-06.html#section-6

Thanks,
Francois

On 4 Apr 2024 at 19:12:26, Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 1:08 PM Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Tom Herbert <tom=40herbertland....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>>     >> Tcpdump can determine that this packet is steered onto an SRv6
>> path by
>>     >> checking if the DA matches the SRv6 SID block.
>>
>>     > That would require introducing external state to tcpdump for correct
>>     > operation. This would be a major divergence in both implementation
>> and
>>     > ops compared to how things work today.
>>
>> It wouldn't be that weird to have the new SID block in the source code,
>> with
>> an override from the command line.  No weirder than port 23==telnet.
>>
>
> Michael,
>
> 23 is well known port number registered with IANA? Is the SID block a
> globally reserved address space?
>
> Tom
>
>
>> --
>> Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting
>> )
>>            Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
>>
>
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