> be sure to understand footnote.  almost 10% of the atlas probes which
> think they have ipv6 connectivity actually do not.  so one has to
> subtract that 9.94% from all entries in fail% column.
> 
> if you are unfamiliar with the ncc atlas project, grab your board and go
> to https://atlas.ripe.net/

I don't quite understand what he is testing?
just sending large packets?
or as the subject says, fragmented packets?
or path MTU discovery?

cheers,
Ole

> Message-ID: <5223a4ce.9090...@ripe.net>
> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:34:22 +0200
> From: Emile Aben <emile.a...@ripe.net>
> To: Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com>
> CC: na...@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?
> 
> On 31/08/2013 13:13, Randy Bush wrote:
>> could you please test with ipv6?
> 
> This is what I see for various IPv6 payloads (large ICMPv6 echo
> requests) from all RIPE Atlas probes that where available at the time to
> a single "known good" MTU 1500 destination:
> 
> plen  fail%   nr_probes
> 100   9.64    1266
> 500   9.34    1039
> 1000  9.94    1298
> 1240  9.94    1308
> 1241  11.62   1300
> 1440  12.70   890
> 1441  14.70   1306
> 1460  15.18   1304
> 1461  19.84   1290
> 1462  22.02   1294
> 
> plen: IPv6 payload length (ie. not including 40byte IPv6 header)
> fail%: percentage of probes that didn't get any of the 5 pkts that were
> sent. Note that there is a large baseline failure rate in IPv6 on RIPE
> Atlas probes [1], which would explain the ~10% failure rate for the
> smaller packets.
> 
> I plan to do more analysis and start writing this up on RIPE Labs over
> the next few days.
> 
> cheers,
> Emile Aben
> RIPE NCC
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/how-many-atlas-probes-believe-they-have-ipv6-but-are-wrong
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