6 Oct
2019
6 Oct
'19
9:58 p.m.
On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:47:24 -0400, bzs@theworld.com said:
All a strictly IPv4 only host/router would need to understand in that case is the IHL, which it does already, and how to interpret whatever flag/option is used to indicate the presence of additional address bits mostly to ignore it or perhaps just enough to know to drop it if it's not implemented.
So... how would a strict IPv4 router handle the case where 8.8.4.5.13.9/40 should be routed to Cogent, but 8.8.4.5.17.168/40 should be routed via Hurricane Electric, and no you can't just route to wherever 8.8.4.5 goes because there's yet another peering war and nobody's baked a cake yet, so sending packets for either route to the wrong link will cause blackholing?