In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:32:12 -0800 (PST)), David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> I question any RFC mandate that shuts down IP communication on a node > because of packets received from remote systems. RFC4862 tell us that we SHOULD disable IP communication. (IP means IPv6 here; IPv4 is out of scope.) In IETF term, a SHOULD is almost a MUST. We are required to follow unless we have very good reason to ignore it. > If the TAHI test can trigger this, so can a compromised system on your > network and won't that be fun? :-) So, I know the specification, but I have ignored it. I think it is fine to implent in some way, but I do think we must have a switch not to do this. --yoshfuji -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html