(usagi-users 03676) Re: Routing header reversal support is missing!

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <89fb8be00605260823l50b97130j88f13060bfef11d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Fri, 26 May 2006 15:23:15 +0000), "Sérgio Gomes" <sergiomdgomes@xxxxxxxxx> says:

> As a followup to my previous post, and because I received no reply, I
> began carefully analysing the IPv6 source code in the USAGI webcvs,
> and I realized that the support for point 8.4 (Responding to Packets
> Carrying Routing Headers) of the IPv6 RFC2460 is incorrect.
:
> It states that it should be possible to reverse routing headers if
> authentication (namely IPSec AH) is present in the connection.

I don't think so.  It is just permitted.
The implementation is NOT incorrect; we simply do not support the 3rd
option in kernel.

--yoshfuji