From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 20:14:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BB4106568C for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:14:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61BB115FED9; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F5A6486.30701@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:13:58 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Yong References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strong host model in IPv6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:14:25 -0000 On 3/9/2012 7:02 AM, Alex Yong wrote: > I've been playing around with IPv6 networking on FreeBSD release 8.2 and > found that there seems to be no strong incoming host model as specified in > RFC 1122. First, you're infinitely more likely to get a useful response if you send your message to freebsd-net@. Second, according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122 that RFC has been updated quite a bit over the last 23 years. Have you followed that chain upwards to make sure that your concerns are still valid? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection