netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv6: allow rejecting with "source address failed policy"

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Date:	Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:27:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jogo@...nwrt.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: allow rejecting with "source address failed policy"

From: Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
Date: Mon,  3 Jun 2013 16:45:08 +0200

> RFC6204 L-14 requires rejecting traffic from invalid addresses with
> ICMPv6 Destination Unreachable, Code 5 (Source address failed ingress/
> egress policy) on the LAN side, so add an appropriate rule for that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>

I don't see the point of this, there is no difference from the
existing PROHIBIT other than the error code.  Everything that needs to
be expressed can be done using PROHIBIT.

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