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Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment


From: George Michaelson <ggm () algebras org>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 12:14:52 +1000

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:12 PM Masataka Ohta
<mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote:

George Michaelson wrote:
Or, why we even have SRC in the header: it does not
inform routing.

Primarily for ICMP.

Could look inside beyond first header state to see DST as payload.
optimisation for ICMP feels like premature optimisation. But, its
semi-rational. Frag which dropped this, was going to make IP difficult
for any real use anyway, not bothered by the corner-case breaks.
Coulda Woulda Shoulda

-G


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