(usagi-users 01379) IPv6 Routing Header - How does it work?

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Wed Apr 17 03:55:31 EDT 2002


On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Vriz wrote:
> IPv6's Routing Header plays the same role as the source routing option of
> IPv4, in which the source host specify a list of hops that the packet must
> traverse. However, could anyone advise on how the list of hops is chosen?
> Thank you.

You can select them the any way you like, like IPv4 loose source routing.

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