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Hi all,

I am still not happy that middleboxes (Firewall, Load Balancer) are discarded as the reasons for EH drops.

Tom (Herbert) is right that "FWs and middleboxes that insist on meddling in protocol layers beyond the networking layer where both the standard and the Internet architecture say they are not supposed to look at"

But they are! We should not ignore the reality.

It is especially evident that they are among reasons for EHs drops after response:

> I would love to see the firewall device that is capable of processing ALL protocol headers in the IETF protocol suite! Reality is that firewalls can only process what they are programmed to process which is typically a very small subset of the possible protocols a host might want to use.

It is not good to ignore/hide some type of drops that we do not like.

Eduard

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Subject: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops-00.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.

This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Operations WG of the IETF.

        Title           : Operational Implications of IPv6 Packets with Extension Headers

        Authors         : Fernando Gont

                          Nick Hilliard

                          Gert Doering

                          Warren Kumari

                          Geoff Huston

                          Will (Shucheng) Liu

               Filename        : draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops-00.txt

               Pages           : 16

               Date            : 2020-07-31

Abstract:

   This document summarizes the operational implications of IPv6

   extension headers, and attempts to analyze reasons why packets with

   IPv6 extension headers may be dropped in the public Internet.

The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops/

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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops-00

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[v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops-00 - Middleboxes