Re: error messages and silently discarding packets

[marcelo bagnulo braun <marcelo@it.uc3m.es>]

So, i will

- Define a Shim6 error message
- substtitute the current usage of ICMP error messages for the newly 
defined shim6 error message
- define an error type suitable for debugging purposes (i.e. error that 
can be enabled for debugging but that are not normally in the protocol)
- add e new paragraph mentioning that instead of silently discarding 
packet with error, a host can be configured to send an shim6 error 
messages for debugging purposes

makes sense?

the plan is to submit the new version of the proto draft this week, so 
if you have issues with this or other comments, please comment

regards, marcelo



El 07/04/2007, a las 0:24, Henderson, Thomas R escribió:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: marcelo bagnulo braun [mailto:marcelo@it.uc3m.es]
> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:44 AM
> > To: Brian E Carpenter; Erik Nordmark
> > Cc: shim6-wg
> > Subject: Re: error messages and silently discarding packets
> <snip>
> > So accroding to Brian's criteria, we shoudl define a shim6 error
> > message.. what do others think?
>
> I posted on this a few months ago, but we decided in HIP to adopt the
> approach taken in IKE to define these messages (HIP NOTIFY similar to
> IKEv2 Notify), especially for debugging, and I don't see why shim6 
> would
> necessarily want to take a different stance.
>
> Tom