Re: [Int-area] [IPv6] New Draft - ICMPv6 Loopback

Florian Obser <florian+ietf@narrans.de> Wed, 07 June 2023 12:15 UTC

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From: Florian Obser <florian+ietf@narrans.de>
To: Luigi IANNONE <luigi.iannone=40huawei.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Int-area] [IPv6] New Draft - ICMPv6 Loopback
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On 2023-06-07 11:42 UTC, Luigi IANNONE <luigi.iannone=40huawei.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> For FreeBSD it looks like code MUST be 0 or the packet is dropped:
>

this is coming from KAME so everything that derives from there has
this. E.g. it's also present in OpenBSD & NetBSD.

> (file netinet6/icmp6.c line 550: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/netinet6/icmp6.c#L550)
>
>
>        case ICMP6_ECHO_REQUEST:
>                  icmp6_ifstat_inc(ifp, ifs6_in_echo);
>                   if (code != 0)
>                            goto badcode;
>
>
> Ciao
>
> L.

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