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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