Subject: Re: misc/3212: Source routing configuration problem
To: Kevin M. Lahey <kml@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/18/1997 09:17:08
"Kevin M. Lahey" writes:
> I kind of liked the other idea in this pr, namely, adding an option
> to discard source routed packets as they arrive, so that they don't
> make it up the protocol stack.  RFC1122 explicitly states that
> source routed packets MUST be handed up the protocol state, but
> perhaps it was a product of a kinder and gentler age.  It would
> be really easy to add 'net.inet.ip.acceptsrcrt'.
> 
> Would anyone object to such an addition?

I like the idea myself.

Perry