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Dumb question about routing headers

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sun, 24 May 2020 21:05 UTC

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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Subject: Dumb question about routing headers
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Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 09:05:28 +1200
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Is a routing header whose final destination is a multicast address, but whose previous segments are all unicast, valid?

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   Brian Carpenter

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