On Thu, 6 May 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote: > I have just committed the attached change to ip_input() to control the > behaviour of IP Options processing. The default is the unchanged > current behaviour. [...] > routing. The remaining IP Options are RR (record route) and TS (time > stamp) which are both useless. For finding out which path a packet takes > we use traceroute instead of RR. Besides that RR is limited to the space > in the IP Options field and can possibly record only a few hops (9 IIRC). > Time stamp is useless for the same reason and since it doesn't have a > fixed and synchronized timebase it is even more so useless. > > Opinions? Discussion? Yes/Nay? I use RR all the time. it allows you to record the reverse path, (up to the size limitation). what about inet6 ? do you plan on doing things there? There are more options defined there..Received on Thu May 06 2004 - 10:22:31 UTC
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