Merav Haran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need your help with the following questions for host IPv6 support:
>
> 1. Does IPv6 fragmentation occur in TCP/IP applications? Since the
> sending host should know the path MTU and there is no fragmentation by
> intermediate routers, is there a reason for the TCP to send bigger segments
> than the path MTU? Can we assume that for TCP applications there is no
> fragmentation in IPv6?
fragmentation is done only by the sending host, after
having determine the path mtu. TCP applications should
not assume that no fragmentation occurs, but it can
assume that there will be no fragmentation during the journey
of your tcp segment.
>
> 2. Regarding Hop-by-hop, routing, and destination extension headers
> that are not of interest for us � is it allowed to skip over these extension
> headers (i.e. just to read the �next header� and �length� fields and to go
> to the next extension header, without looking inside these headers)?
yes
> 3. When multiple IPv6 unicast addresses are assigned to the same
> physical Ethernet port, is it possible that these addresses will differ in
> their 64 MSB bits?
yes, it is the predefined behavior.
> 4. Is it acceptable not to send back ICMP �parameter problem� massages?
why not ??
> Thanks,
>
> Merav Haran
>
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