netdev - Re: IPV6_RTHDR with a type-0 routing header

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Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:18:20 +0200
From:	"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@...foot.com>
To:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6_RTHDR with a type-0 routing header

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:29:09PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>> I've tried attaching a type-0 routing header to my IPv6 packets with
>> setsockopt(..., IPV6_RTHDR, ...), but the kernel just returns EINVAL.
>> looking at the source, it seems it simply refuses anything that's not
>> type-2;
>> should that really be right? I found the following commit:
> RT0 headers have been deprecated by IETF. The kernel refuses to use then on
> purpose.

Hm, OK. And no replacement has been proposed, the deprecation RFC just refers
to "future routing headers"...

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