Re: How to turn on source-routing?

Nick Hilliard (nh@ieunet.ie)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:56:19 +0100 (BST)

Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz <megazone@livingston.com> wrote:
: Once upon a time Kim Hendrikse shaped the electrons to say...
: >Any idea how to turn on source routing in a portmaster? Yeah, yeah,
: insecure.
:
: You can't. We do NOT do it, and won't do it. It isn't even in the code,
: it was deliberately left out. We simply do not support source routing.

This seems to be against the spirit of rfc1009 and the letter of rfc1812.

rfc1009:
> It is important for gateways to implement both the Loose and
> Strict Source Route options.

rfc1812:
> A router MUST be able to act as the final destination of a
> source route. [etc]

The lack of source-routing support is something that really bothers me every
so often (when I need it).

Is there a particular reason, apart from security and code bloat, that
Livingston doesn't support this feature?

Nick