From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pekkas@netcore.fi
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] GTSM for IPv6
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:16:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100321.201608.124071215.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1003191959050.31512@netcore.fi>
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:02:48 +0200 (EET)
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Also RFC doesn't explicitly address GTSM on IPV6.
>> Maybe the RFC editors think the problem will magically no longer exist
>> in IPv6 world because everyone will be using IPsec.
>
> Hmm. When I was editing the RFC, I seem to have put in some text about
> IPv6 (i.e. difference in TTL vs Hop Count naming). As far as I know,
> there is no other difference :-)
>
> In IPV6_MIN_HOPS hops would seem to point toward the "number of hops"
> which is logically the opposite: 255-$value. So maybe
> IPV6_MIN_HOPCOUNT is better. But I can live with it either way :-)
Stephen, make whatever decision your deem appropriate about
the name and resubmit this for net-next-2.6, thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 16:56 [RFC] GTSM for IPv6 Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-19 18:02 ` Pekka Savola
2010-03-22 3:16 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-03-22 7:14 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2010-03-22 7:27 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2010-03-28 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
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