netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] IPv6: Generic TTL Security Mechanism (original version)

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Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:23:05 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	Pekka Savola <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Nick Hilliard <nick@...x.ie>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IPv6: Generic TTL Security Mechanism (original
 version)

On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:21:04 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:

> This patch adds IPv6 support for RFC5082 Generalized TTL
> Security Mechanism.  
> 
> The original proposed code; the IPV6 and IPV4 socket options are seperate.
> With this method, the server does have to deal with both IPv4 and IPv6
> socket options and the client has to handle the different for each
> family.
> 
> On client:
> 	int ttl = 255;
> 	getaddrinfo(argv[1], argv[2], &hint, &result);
> 
> 	for (rp = result; rp != NULL; rp = rp->ai_next) {
> 		s = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol);
> 		if (s < 0) continue;
> 
> 		if (rp->ai_family == AF_INET) {
> 			setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IP, IP_TTL, &ttl, sizeof(ttl));
> 		} else if (rp->ai_family == AF_INET6) {
> 			setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IPV6,  IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS, 
> 					&ttl, sizeof(ttl)))
> 		}
> 			
> 		if (connect(s, rp->ai_addr, rp->ai_addrlen) == 0) {
> 		   ...
> 
> On server:
> 	int minttl = 255 - maxhops;
>    
> 	getaddrinfo(NULL, port, &hints, &result);
> 	for (rp = result; rp != NULL; rp = rp->ai_next) {
> 		s = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol);
> 		if (s < 0) continue;
> 
> 		if (rp->ai_family == AF_INET6)
> 			setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IPV6,  IPV6_MINHOPCOUNT,
> 					&minttl, sizeof(minttl));
> 		setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IP, IP_MINTTL, &minttl, sizeof(minttl));
> 			
> 		if (bind(s, rp->ai_addr, rp->ai_addrlen) == 0)
> 			break
> ..
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Dave: Yoshifuji and I agree this is the best solution, how come the patch
hasn't been applied?
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