On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM Joseph Touch via Datatracker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Document: draft-ietf-intarea-rfc8335bis
> Title: PROBE: A Utility for Probing Interfaces
> Reviewer: Joseph Touch
> Review result: Ready with Nits
>
> The document is generally fine, with the following offered as a suggestion
> for clarity:
>
> Page 10 should be updated with the text in braces []:
>
> Otherwise, when a node receives an ICMPv4 Extended Echo Request, it
>    MUST format [the IPv4 header of] an ICMP Extended Echo Reply as follows:
>    *  Don't Fragment (DF) flag is 1
>    *  More Fragments flag is 0
>    *  Fragment Offset is 0
>   [(the above indicate that the packet is not source fragmented and must
> not be on-path fragmented)]
>    *  TTL is 255
>    *  Protocol is ICMP
>    When a node receives an ICMPv6 Extended Echo Request, it MUST format
>    [the IPv6 header of] an ICMPv6 Extended Echo Reply as follows:
>    *  Hop Limit is 255
>    *  Next Header is ICMPv6
>   [* No use of the IPv6 Fragmentation Header (i.e., not source fragmented)]
>

Thanks, Joe, I'll make these updates.

It's surprising to see a suggestion to explicitly list not including the
fragmentation header. I wonder if it would be helpful to include other
things not to include? Don't include Router Alert? Don't include ASCII art
of a rutabaga?

  Bill
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