netdev - Re: Fwd: RFC 7112 on Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:56:38 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Fernando Gont <fernando@...t.com.ar>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: RFC 7112 on Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains

On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 16:25 -0300, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> FYI. This one has important implications -- it allows stateless
> filtering in IPv6 (otherwise not really possible)
[...]

Still not possible unless you can trust that all hosts behind the
firewall will correctly drop overlapping fragments.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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