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

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 02 November 2017 16:48 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>
cc: 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
Subject: Re: Updating to RFC6434 to deal with 8200-style header insertion by IPIP
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, C. M. Heard wrote:

>> Right. I forgot that IPSEC is an extension header in IPv6, I tought of it as
>> something that was encapsulated. So I take back what I said.
>
> No, you were right the first time. Unknown extension headers are not
> skipped; they cause the packet to be discarded (see RFC 8200, Sec 4).

Sure, but if the device understands IPSEC but has it turned off, what 
should it do?

I don't know.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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