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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux il/ip
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:14:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad9afe57eb598450fa776e6037635b07@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055b16f0609260653i60fb764al9743bed22a0dfec3@mail.gmail.com>

> since many routers dislike any data that's not udp/tcp

>> that's not true - ip routers don't care about layers 4 and up most of the time

it's mainly nat boxes and other protocol transformers that are confused.
to assist that and similar transformations, the ipv6 designers
carefully put port numbers, lengths and checksums in standard places
in all v6 variants of the existing protocols (since the headers were changing anyway).
how's that???  they didn't!!??!?!



  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-28 15:56 erik quanstrom
2006-08-28 16:32 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2006-08-28 16:43   ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-28 16:56     ` Sergey Zhilkin
2006-08-28 17:12       ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-28 17:31         ` geoff
2006-08-28 17:51           ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-29  4:56           ` lucio
2006-08-29 14:37             ` Brantley Coile
2006-08-29 17:05               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-29 19:49                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-29 20:14                   ` David Leimbach
2006-08-29 22:07                     ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-29 20:43                   ` jmk
2006-08-29 22:29                     ` Brantley Coile
2006-08-29 23:15                       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-31 11:15                     ` Dave Lukes
2006-09-01 16:14                       ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-01 16:34                         ` David Leimbach
2006-09-01 16:41                           ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-01 17:16                             ` David Leimbach
2006-09-25 23:17                               ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-09-25 23:56                                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-26  8:12                                   ` Martin Neubauer
2006-09-26 11:44                                     ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-26 13:53                                       ` Artem Letko
2006-09-26 15:14                                         ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2006-09-26 17:18                                           ` Russ Cox
2006-09-26 17:42                                             ` Brantley Coile
2006-09-26 18:05                                               ` jmk
2006-09-26 20:31                                               ` geoff
2006-09-28  3:33                                             ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-27  1:08                                         ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-09-28  3:28                                           ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-26 10:21                                   ` Re: " Sergey Zhilkin
2006-08-29 20:38               ` geoff
2006-08-29 22:27                 ` Brantley Coile
2006-08-29  4:53     ` lucio
     [not found] <000601c6cb2a$2a9f3660$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-08-29  6:39 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-08-29 10:15   ` Sergey Zhilkin
2006-08-29 14:54     ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
     [not found] <000901c6e0fe$c6d4aee0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-09-26  9:08 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-09-26 11:48   ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-26 13:56     ` Artem Letko

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