RE: IETF multihoming powder: just add IPv6 and stir

["Tony Li" <Tony.Li@procket.com>]

A filter that is looking at a locator is probably a bug.

Tony

|    On dinsdag, mei 13, 2003, at 23:37 Europe/Amsterdam, Masataka Ohta 
|    wrote:
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|    > OTOH, rewriting of source locator is not so useful, though I have
|    > no reason to forbid it.
|    
|    Unless the source address is already a valid address 
|    assigned by the 
|    ISP you're forwarding the packet to (which can't by 
|    definition always 
|    be the case in a locator/identifier scheme), you need to 
|    rewrite it in 
|    order to get through ingress filtering and to be able to 
|    receive ICMP 
|    messages. Remember that path MTU discovery is pretty much 
|    mandatory in 
|    IPv6 so you need those ICMPs. Ingress filtering is 
|    important to keep 
|    denial of service attacks in check to at least some degree.
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