Hi,

Am Mi., 23. Okt. 2019 um 14:43 Uhr schrieb Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <
[email protected]>:

> Hello Martine
>
> I meant fragments. It can be expected that a few fragments are still in
> flight after everything is received because of end to end fragment retries
> or L2 ARQ. So the receiver must keep a state to drop them silently. But is
> it gets “too much “ of that it may be an error and the receiver should
> abort the flow.
>
> That “too much” decision is left to implementation.
>

Thank, now it is clearer!

Regards,
Martine


>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pascal
>
> Le 23 oct. 2019 à 14:29, Martine Lenders <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
>
> 
> Hi Pascal,
>
> Am Mo., 21. Okt. 2019 um 18:14 Uhr schrieb Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Hello Again
>>
>>
>>
>> I reread the text and it appears that the receiver operation is too
>> implicit. I suggest to add this in the last fragment processing:
>>
>>
>>
>>     When all the fragments are received, the receiving endpoint
>> reconstructs
>>
>>     the packet, passes it to the upper layer, sends a RFRAG
>> Acknowledgment on
>>
>>     the reverse path with a FULL bitmap, and harms a short timer to absorb
>>
>>     packets that are still in flight for that datagram without creating a
>> new
>>
>>     state and abort the communication if it keeps going.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does that help?
>>
>
> If this goes somewhere in section 6, yes I think that makes it far more
> understandable.
>
>
>> Note that there’s room for an implementation to decide if it absorbs
>> silently a few packets and for how long, and when it decides to reset the
>> flow. The all 1 (to be renamed throughout to FULL)  does not help more than
>> the reset.
>>
>
> By packets you mean fragments or reassembled datagrams. I don't really
> understand what you mean by that.
>
> Best regards,
> Martine
>
>
>>
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
>> *Sent:* lundi 21 octobre 2019 17:29
>> *To:* Martine Lenders <[email protected]>; [email protected]
>> *Subject:* RE: [6lo] draft-ietf-6lo-fragment-recovery: Send a FULL
>> bitmap when datagram is complete?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry I missed that Martine!
>>
>>
>>
>> The ALL 1s was already sent when the last fragment was received. This
>> text happens later.
>>
>>
>>
>> It is supposed to have been processed along the way back. The receiving
>> end node maintains a state for a “short” time after the message processing
>> to absorb packets that may still be in flight. During that “short” time it
>> is capable to recognize redundant packets and drop them as opposed to
>> create a new state and expect the full fragment. For legitimate packets
>> still in flight the good thing would be to stay silent. If the Ack with a
>> FULL (All 1s) bitmap was lost then sending it again would be OK as you
>> point out.
>>
>>
>>
>> But there might also be error conditions, like a weird situation that the
>> FULL bitmap did not fix on its way back where the sender keeps sending. If
>> the FULL bitmap failed then retrying it may fail again. The reset is a
>> clearer indication to drop everything regardless and move to the next.
>>
>>
>>
>> Works? Should we massage text?
>>
>>
>>
>> All the best
>>
>>
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>>
>> Am Di., 1. Okt. 2019 um 16:31 Uhr schrieb Martine Lenders <
>> [email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> draft-ietf-6lo-fragment-recovery states in section 6.3
>>
>>
>>
>> [the] might need to abort the process of a fragmented packet for internal
>> reasons, for instance if it […] considers that this packet is already fully
>> reassembled and passed to the upper layer. In that case, the receiver
>> SHOULD indicate so to the sender with a NULL bitmap in a RFRAG
>> Acknowledgment.
>>
>>
>>
>> The given example seems to me the perfect instance to set a FULL bitmap
>> instead. There is no other instance were a FULL bitmap is specified to be
>> sent, except for the case that the datagram incidentally fills out the
>> whole value space of the sequence number field.
>>
>>
>>
>> Or am I missing something?
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Martine
>>
>>
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