From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 24 07:43:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA21913 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doorstep.unety.net (root@usi-00-10.Naperville.unety.net [204.70.107.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA21908 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:43:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webster.unety.net (webster.unety.net [206.31.202.8]) by doorstep.unety.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA19003; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:37:53 -0500 Received: by webster.unety.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BB31C2.28B6B6A0@webster.unety.net>; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:41:05 -0500 Message-ID: <01BB31C2.28B6B6A0@webster.unety.net> From: Jim Fleming To: "'Poul-Henning Kamp'" , Paul Traina Cc: "current@FreeBSD.org" , Jim Fleming Subject: RE: SLIP: Check IP Version (please test) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:41:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, April 24, 1996 1:35 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp[SMTP:phk@critter.tfs.com] wrote: @> This patch seems to be irrelevant in any case. Only IPv4 packets should @> be passed to the SLIP driver. SLIP is not a multiprotocol point-to-point @> protocol, PPP is. @> @> IPvX x!=4 is a different protocol. SLIP is not supported in IPv6. Please @> don't slow down the code path by adding this change. @ @I agree, the point is that people play with IPv8 and it breaks slip. @If SLIP is only for IPv4, it should discard other packets... @ Yes...and since IPv8 "slips" between the cracks of IPv4 and IPv6...SLIP can miss the IPv8 packets and crunch the checksum field of IPv8 which is used to encode the StarGate address(es). -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net