[ipv6hackers] rfc5722 implementation

Eric Vyncke (evyncke) evyncke at cisco.com
Sat Feb 18 13:10:23 CET 2012


A colleague of mine did a test a couple of months ago, and, it appears that all recent OS (Win Vista, Win 7, Mac OS/X Snow Leopard & later, ...) are indeed enforcing this RFC.

Marc, I guess 'your gentle push' was a key ingredient :-)

-éric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6hackers-bounces at lists.si6networks.com [mailto:ipv6hackers-
> bounces at lists.si6networks.com] On Behalf Of Marc Heuse
> Sent: samedi 18 février 2012 12:50
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> Subject: [ipv6hackers] rfc5722 implementation
> 
> hi folks,
> 
> it seems that RFC 5722 (Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments) is
> started to being implemented. I saw a patch for OpenBSD and it seems
> that Windows 7 got a silent patch for this.
> 
> can anybody confirm? and are other OS affected too?
> 
> greets,
> marc
> 
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