(usagi-users 03676) Re: Routing header reversal support is missing!

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ipv6.usagi.users
Organization USAGI/WIDE Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]> (at Fri, 26 May 2006 15:23:15 +0000), "Sérgio Gomes" <[email protected]> says:

> As a followup to my previous post, and because I received no reply, I
> began carefully analysing the IPv6 source code in the USAGI webcvs,
> and I realized that the support for point 8.4 (Responding to Packets
> Carrying Routing Headers) of the IPv6 RFC2460 is incorrect.
:
> It states that it should be possible to reverse routing headers if
> authentication (namely IPSec AH) is present in the connection.

I don't think so.  It is just permitted.
The implementation is NOT incorrect; we simply do not support the 3rd
option in kernel.

--yoshfuji
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