Killing IP options

[Russ Allbery]

Kai Henningsen <kaih at khms.westfalen.de> writes:
> rra at stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote:

>> I'm fairly sure that IPv6 doesn't allow anything like source routing in
>> the first place.

> I'm pretty certain it does.

> Ah, yes: RFC 2460, 4.4 Routing Header.

Wonderful.  I wouldn't have thought they'd be that stupid, but maybe they
weren't.  Does it pose all the same security issues for IP-based
authentication as IPv4 source routing does?

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