> On Feb 29, 2020, at 5:46 PM, Fernando Gont <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I did look at the protocols involved here; the ingress does add headers but
>> doesn’t appear to handle fragmentation.
>> That’s a non-starter if you want your packets to traverse a network because
>> people WILL hand you 1280-byte packets, so what will you do?
>
> FWIW, we have been insisting on this point (and others) since they first
> tried to push EH insertion in draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header.
>
> THey removed it from *that* document, but they keep trying to push similar
> ideas in other documents.
Well its seems simple to me - they need a plan for fragmentation or it’s simply
a nonstarter because they can’t support 1280-B packets traversing the network.
No amount of “but this is what the user wants” translates to “they want their
packets dropped silently”.
Joe
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