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2024-04-23 Thread Michael Walker
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[6lo] Processing old erratum 6194 on RFC 4944, "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks"

2024-04-23 Thread Eric Vyncke (evyncke)
As the new shepherding AD for 6LO, I just found a reported (i.e., neither verified nor closed) erratum on RFC 4944, "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks". https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?eid=6194 This erratum was never posted to the 6LO list probably due to a te

Re: [6lo] Processing old erratum 6194 on RFC 4944, "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks"

2024-04-23 Thread Carsten Bormann
RFC 4944 does what (AFAIK) all 802-derived IP-over-foos do when creating IP addresses from MAC addresses/EUIs: The Interface Identifier is then formed from the EUI-64 by complementing the "Universal/Local" (U/L) bit, (Section 4 of RFC 2464). The text cited from IEEE talks about EUIs. EUI

Re: [6lo] [IPv6] Can We Turn the Global Network into a Firewall Protecting All End Users?

2024-04-23 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 23 Apr 2024, at 16:51, Hubert W wrote: > > Dear WG, > > > I woke up with one idea and I would like to challenge it. > In IPv6, every device receives a routable address. To protect endpoints > effectively, we require firewalls to filter unwanted traffic. Apart from packet volume this