Re: source route reversal

bmanning@isi.edu Thu, 02 February 1995 12:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: source route reversal
To: Scott Bradner <sob@newdev.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 04:27:15 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <199501280131.UAA21529@newdev.harvard.edu> from "Scott Bradner" at Jan 27, 95 08:31:04 pm
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> 
> A question on the current rr draft  (I don't know the answer)
> 
> A number of places the current draft says that if there is a source 
> route in the packet and any response (ICMP etc) has to be generated, 
> the source route MUST be reversed and used to direct the return packet.  
> The issue of doing this sort of thing came up in the IPv6 source route 
> discussions and some people like Tony Li had strong thoughts that this type of
> behavior should not be required.  
> 
> Is this something that should be brought up for specific discussion?
> 
> Scott
> 

Well maybe.  I expect that the draft wording correctly reflects the 
general agreement of the group and the intent of source routes.      
Tony, What does SDR have to say on this matter?

-- 
--bill