IPv6 Pain Experiment

Thu Oct 3 02:14:52 UTC 2019

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:12 PM Masataka Ohta
<mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> George Michaelson wrote:
> > Or, why we even have SRC in the header: it does not
> > inform routing.
>
> Primarily for ICMP.

Could look inside beyond first header state to see DST as payload.
optimisation for ICMP feels like premature optimisation. But, its
semi-rational. Frag which dropped this, was going to make IP difficult
for any real use anyway, not bothered by the corner-case breaks.
Coulda Woulda Shoulda

-G