Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:07:43 +0900 From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> To: Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Router Alert breaks forwarding Message-ID: <m1d52jpd5c.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20070404211815.GA6798@mcdonald.org.uk> References: <20070404211815.GA6798@mcdonald.org.uk>
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At Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:18:15 +0100, Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk> wrote: > In the absence of a full fix, it would probably be a good idea to > remove this unconditional check. This would avoid FreeBSD blocking IPv6 > packets with router alert set. However, I'm not sure if this would have > an impact on MLD. It does, so (while I see your point) the fix is not that trivial. Just out of curiosity, do you have any specific application that relies on the router alert option and suffers from the current behavior? Or are you just talking about stringent compliance with the specification? JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
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