From owner-freebsd-standards Thu Jul 4 9:40:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF28137B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A345243E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@espresso.q9media.com) Received: by espresso.q9media.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B3F579C11; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 12:36:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 12:36:47 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: Hiten Pandya Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Something about ICMP6_TIME_EXCEEDED Message-ID: <20020704123647.E14983@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020704123733.GA3791@hpdi.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020704123733.GA3791@hpdi.ath.cx>; from hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:37:33PM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiten Pandya writes: > [please CC' a copy of the mail to me; thanks. I am not subscribed > to -standards] > > Hi all. > > I was wondering why we have an ICMP6_TIME_EXCEEDED, but not a > ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED. On an IRC channel, I proposed that we > either: > > o define ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED ICMP_TIMXCEED; > > o change the ipv6 code to make use of ICMP6_TIMXCEED > for historical reasons. > > I dont know much about standards, so I have emailed here on > how and which approach should be taken. > > Thanks in advance. This is beyond the scope of any of the standards we deal with. Check the relevant IPv6 RFCs for insights. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message