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"Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> Thu, 31 August 2017 23:07 UTC

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From: "Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
To: 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
Subject: ICMPv6 question
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I have a question. If an IPV6 host with address 2001:db8::f00 assigned to an interface
receives a packet with destination address 2001:db8::baa over that interface, what
should it do? Drop the packet silently, or drop and return an ICMPv6 Destination
Unreachable?

Thanks - Fred

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