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Re: Notes about identifier - locator separator

Christian Huitema wrote:


The IPv6 architecture is pretty clear about that one: the only packets
that a router is expected to process are those in which the first
payload is a "per hop option", or those in which the destination address
is one of the router's own addresses. All other payloads are supposedly
end-to-end.

Well there's architecture and reality. Reality says that devices are going to look well inside the header for port information, firewall processing, and packet classification, to name a few.

Eliot