Re: happy eyesockets

On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 08:13:34AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> [email protected] (Michael van Elst) writes:
> 
> > [email protected] (Greg Troxel) writes:
> >
> >>I don't object and I think you have a good point, but what do the
> >>standards say?
> >
> > RFC1122 describes how to handle ICMP messages and distinguishes
> > between soft errors (event gets registered, but protocol continues)
> > and hard errors (a TCP connection is aborted).
> 
> As I understand you, the proposed chagne is noncompilant, and thus
> presumptively shouldn't go in.  Is that how you see it?


Yes. At least the EHOSTUNREACH error should not abort and the test
needs to be refined further for IPv6.

I'm not sure if if then still helps for broken IPv6 networks.


Greetings,
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                                Michael van Elst
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