Hi Tom, Tom Herbert wrote on 20/02/2021 15:32:
This is reflected in the statement: "If an IPv6 header chain is sufficiently long that it exceeds the packet look-up capacity of the router, the router might be unable to determine how the packet should be handled, and thus could resort to dropping the packet." It's not to me clear what "sufficiently long" means;
Is this just an issue of dialect? The term "If an IPv6 header chain is sufficiently long that..." just means "If an IPv6 header chain is long enough that..."
in particular, such a statement isn't helpful to the host stack developer trying to figure out if the packets they're creating will be properly forwarded.
That's something that should be addressed in a future ID. Right now we're concentrating on documenting the problem.
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