Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 5/9/19 18:42, Alexander Vainshtein wrote:
> Fernando,
> 
> With regard to the last statement in your email "If you create a new
> packet, and you put your own address in the SA of the packet, and
> encapsulate what you received in the IPv6 payload, you're free to
> generate as many EHs as you wish", do you see the need to comply with
> the 8200 recommendation that says
> 
>  
> 
> <quote>
> 
>    Each extension header should occur at most once, except for the
> 
>    Destination Options header, which should occur at most twice (once
> 
>    before a Routing header and once before the upper-layer header).
> 
> <end quote>

Of course. I was mostly meaning that if you encapsulate, then the
resulting packet can contain an EH, because you'd not be *inserting* and
EH in an existing packet, but rather creating a brand new one.

Of course, the rest of RFC8200 still applies.

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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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