From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6_RTHDR with a type-0 routing header
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:18:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090820121820.GA21354@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d4abbaea1f1e17050a0e8ffe4917cb8@chewa.net>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:29:09PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>> I've tried attaching a type-0 routing header to my IPv6 packets with
>> setsockopt(..., IPV6_RTHDR, ...), but the kernel just returns EINVAL.
>> looking at the source, it seems it simply refuses anything that's not
>> type-2;
>> should that really be right? I found the following commit:
> RT0 headers have been deprecated by IETF. The kernel refuses to use then on
> purpose.
Hm, OK. And no replacement has been proposed, the deprecation RFC just refers
to "future routing headers"...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-20 11:11 IPV6_RTHDR with a type-0 routing header Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-20 11:29 ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-20 11:29 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-08-20 12:18 ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2009-08-20 12:39 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-20 12:53 ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-08-20 13:00 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-20 13:11 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-08-21 1:09 ` Shan Wei
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