16 Sep
2021
16 Sep
'21
11:23 a.m.
Philip Homburg <philip.homburg@ripe.net> writes:
On 2021/09/15 21:59 , Bjørn Mork wrote:
I believe it's better to ignore the formalities here and forward those packets. It's certainly harmless. At least as harmless as forwarding any other ICMP error messages.
In my opinion this is the wrong approach. If there is a good reason to violate the standard, then the thing to do is to bring up in the IETF.
You are of course correct. Let's hope someone else cares enough to do that :-) An additional argument for allowing the ICMP errors, and only those, is that you can't send back any dest unreachable with "Beyond scope of source address". Bjørn