Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758667Ab3JKQgu (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:36:50 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f171.google.com ([209.85.223.171]:56263 "EHLO mail-ie0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757484Ab3JKQgt (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:36:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:36:48 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: SIT Tunnel: Generate an ICMPV6 message and send them back to the original IPV6 node From: Oussama Ghorbel To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 19 In RFC 4213, section 3.4, page 11, it says: If sufficient data bytes from the offending packet are available, the encapsulator MAY extract the encapsulated IPv6 packet and use it to generate an ICMPv6 message directed back to the originating IPv6 node. Currently, linux does not do that. More info on the RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4213 Issue described also in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49761 I'm considering to implement this feature. Will be interesting to do it? Regards, Oussama -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/