Hi Zafar,

 

Thanks for your response. In my opinion, the SRv6 compatible with firewall is 
orthogonal with the ICMP handling.

 

The source SRv6 node will receive ICMP (not encaped by SRv6 header) if the TTL 
gets expired in the network. There are 2 relevant cases in my head. 

*       Case1: trace route from CE in uniform mode.  I did not give proposal.
*       Case2: Srv6 ping on PE. I gave proposal using VPN SID.

 

If you want have some proposals in the draft. I would say there are 2 existing 
proposals regarding ICMP handling. Proposal 1 is P node set the VPN SID as ICMP 
destination address (draft-varhal-6man-icmp-srv6-vpn). Proposal 2 is MPLS 
style, which forwarding to egress 
PE(draft-ali-6man-srv6-vpn-icmp-error-handling). 

 

Since my draft is to address the firewall issue, I would say handling of ICMP 
should consider firewall case. To be more clear, the expected ICMP address pair 
would be a pair of VPN SID. Thus it will not only matter of ingress node, but 
will also relevant with P and egress PE. 

 

BR,

Feng

 

发件人: Zafar Ali (zali) <[email protected]> 
发送时间: 2026年4月2日 8:51
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主题: [spring] Re: Follow up "SID as source" in CE-CE ICMP case(uniform mode)

 

Hi Feng 

 

My comments have nothing to do with the CE-CE trace route in uniform mode 
proposal in 6man. 

You need to explain how the source node processes the ICMP error if it receives 
it from the network. 

You cannot exclude ICMP error handling from your proposal. 

 

Hope it helps.

 

Thanks

Regards … Zafar

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Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Subject: Follow up "SID as source" in CE-CE ICMP case(uniform mode)

Hi Zafar,

 

Thanks for your comments on SPRING meeting last week. You mentioned the CE-CE 
ICMP issue with uniform mode in provider network, and there are some proposals 
in 6man.

 

Here comes my proposal:

I would exclude that scenario in the scope of 
“draft-yang-spring-sid-as-source-address”. Will that be an acceptable solution 
for you?

 

BR,

Feng Yang

China Mobile Research Institute

 

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