Re: RFC3542 support on DragonFly BSD.

["Dashu Huang" <hds719@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks! I get it, :).
Huang Dashu

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee> wrote:
> Dashu Huang wrote:
>> Another question, in your email, you said that "There is just no point
>> to preserve the code for compatibility with RFC2292", do you mean all
>> the RFC2292 related codes that have been obsolete by RFC3542 should be
>> removed from the OS (for example inet6_option_space,
>> inet6_rthdr_add()), or you just mean we can remove RH0?
>
> Just RH0 related code of course. Preserving compatibility with RFC2292 in
> general is must be.
>
>> As I know, in current FreeBSD OS those old RFC2292 related API such as
>> "inet6_option_space(), inet6_rthdr_add()" are preserved.
>
> And we must preserve it as well. You should be careful not to break whole
> world of course by removing blindly all strings that contain "rth" :).
> All inet6_rthdr_*() functions must exists (from both old and new API),
> but there is no point to handle RH0 in these. For now where we don't
> support type 2 routing headers these functions can be simple "return
> something that shows we don't support any routing header type".
>
>
> --
> Hasso Tepper
>