From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: IPV6 source routing patch is still broken?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:57:06 -0400
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	Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Miller wrote:
>> +       case IPV6_SRCRT_TYPE_2:
>> +               if (accept_source_route >= 0)
>> +                       break;
>> +               kfree_skb(skb);
>> +               return -1;
>> +       case IPV6_SRCRT_TYPE_0:
>> +               if (accept_source_route > 0)
>> +                       break;
>> +               kfree_skb(skb);
>> +               return -1;
> 
> Yes, that looks like it matches the sysctl documentation more closely:
> 
> accept_source_route - INTEGER
> 	Accept source routing (routing extension header).
> 
> 	> 0: Accept routing header.
> 	= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
> 	< 0: Do not accept routing header.
> 
> Type 2 packets should get through as long as the value of the sysctl
> is not negative.

It was Sergey Vlasov who first found this. I had tried to find his original
message but I was searching the wrong place.

Sergey, you should send networking-related messages to netdev.