+1.

Thanks,

-- Carlos.

On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Ronald Bonica <[email protected]> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I think that we are conflating two separate efforts.
> 
> Draft-bonica-intarea-gre-mtu describes what is widely deployed today. In 
> today's, one of the following conditions frequently holds:
> 
> - the operator of the GRE ingress knows that the GRE egress cannot reassemble 
> fragments at the required rate
> - the operator of the GRE ingress has no information regarding whether the 
> GRE egress can reassemble fragments at the required rate
> 
> Therefore, in draft-bonica, by default, the PTU is equal to the MTU. 
> Fragmentation doesn't happen in the tunnel. However, in the exceptional case, 
> where the operator of the ingress knows that the egress can reassemble at the 
> required rate, fragmentation of the delivery packet is permitted.
> 
> The draft that Joe and Fred are considering applies to environments where 
> egress routers are commonly capable of reassembling at line rate. Since this 
> is a different environment, it should be addressed in a separate draft.
> 
>                                               Ron
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Touch [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:29 PM
> To: Templin, Fred L
> Cc: Ronald Bonica; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Int-area] FW: New Version Notification for 
> draft-bonica-intarea-gre-mtu-04.txt
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/18/2014 10:22 AM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>> 
>> I can see that I am going to have to write a draft on generic tunnel 
>> fragmentation.
> 
> - 
> 
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