Re: Updating to RFC6434 to deal with 8200-style header insertion by IPIP

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Mon, 06 November 2017 16:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: Updating to RFC6434 to deal with 8200-style header insertion by IPIP
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
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On 10/31/2017 04:02 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
>     > Without having thought very much about it... I do think requiring a
>     > host to accept tunnelled packets to itself by default or not, requires
>     > further considerations.
> 
> I agree: it requires further consideration.
> 
>     > I am aware of no implementation that would support this. I would also
>     > be worried about this opening the door for "alternate" paths into the
>     > host stack.
> 
> I agree. Nobody does it this way.
> Yet 8200 (and 2460 before it) says that this is the way to insert headers.

No. EHs are not inserted or removed. When you do IPinIP, you are
creating a brad-new packet, *not* inserting EHs in the existing packet.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
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