Hi Lucy, > -----Original Message----- > From: Int-area [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lucy yong > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 12:09 PM > To: Ronald Bonica; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Int-area] comment on draft-ietf-intarea-gre-ipv6 > > Hi Ron, > > RFC2784 has this statement: See [RFC1122] for requirements relating to the > delivery of packets over IPv4 networks. > Does this apply to over IPv6 networks? > > Since IPv6 header does not have checksum, if a packet is mis-delivered to GRE > decapsulator, will that cause a concern? This is not a > concern when IPv4 network is the delivery network.
In terms of header integrity checks, they are very much in the same boat as RFC2473. But, somehow that got standardized. Thanks - Fred [email protected] > Thanks, > Lucy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald Bonica [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 11:57 AM > To: [email protected]; Lucy yong > Subject: RE: [Int-area] comment on draft-ietf-intarea-gre-ipv6 > > Hi Lucy, > > The goal of this draft is *not* to prove the GRE behaves identically with > IPv6 as it does with IPv4. In fact, its goal is to point out the > differences. > > Can you think of any differences between the two GRE environments that we > have failed to point out? > > > Ron > > > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:25:54 +0000 > > From: Lucy yong <[email protected]> > > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Int-area] comment on draft-ietf-intarea-gre-ipv6 > > Message-ID: <2691CE0099834E4A9C5044EEC662BB9D4545BB21@dfweml701- > > chm> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Hi, > > > > If this draft is to document the protocol of gre in IPv6 exact same as > > of gre in > > IPv4 and update rfc2784, IMHO, it should point out the gre application > > behavior differences in IPv4 network and IPv6 network. The exact same > > protocol does not mean the same behavior for an application since IPv4 > > and > > IPv6 networks have different behaviors such as header checksum. > > > > Thanks, > > Lucy > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
