Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:41:04 -0500 From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> To: "'Poul-Henning Kamp'" <phk@critter.tfs.com>, Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: "current@FreeBSD.org" <current@FreeBSD.org>, Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> Subject: RE: SLIP: Check IP Version (please test) Message-ID: <01BB31C2.28B6B6A0@webster.unety.net>
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On Wednesday, April 24, 1996 1:35 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp[SMTP:phk@critter.tfs.com] wrote: @> This patch seems to be irrelevant in any case. Only IPv4 packets should @> be passed to the SLIP driver. SLIP is not a multiprotocol point-to-point @> protocol, PPP is. @> @> IPvX x!=4 is a different protocol. SLIP is not supported in IPv6. Please @> don't slow down the code path by adding this change. @ @I agree, the point is that people play with IPv8 and it breaks slip. @If SLIP is only for IPv4, it should discard other packets... @ Yes...and since IPv8 "slips" between the cracks of IPv4 and IPv6...SLIP can miss the IPv8 packets and crunch the checksum field of IPv8 which is used to encode the StarGate address(es). -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
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