RE: a question about tunnels

["marcelo bagnulo" <mbagnulo@ing.uc3m.es>]

Pekka, Kurtis, Thanks for the answers...


>
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, marcelo bagnulo wrote:
> > The question is: what is the behaviour of a host, that doesn't have any
> > configured tunnel, when it receives a tunneled packet addressed
> to him (both
> > destination addresses, inner and outer, are assigned to the host)?
>
> IPv6-in-IPv4 configured tunneling spec,
> draft-ietf-v6ops-mech-v2-02.txt, at least discards them.  And IMHO
> that's what should be done, unless one specifies a specific tunneling
> speudo-interface which is open to the whole world and accepts specific
> kind of packets (a bad idea, I think).

Yes, that what i expected, but i couldn't find it stated as a requirement in
any spec

Regards, marcelo

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