Valery Smyslov writes:
> my concern is that these MODP groups will have public keys of 1.5-2
> Kb in size, so it can make using them problematic in real world due
> to fragmentation issues...

In most of those cases the uses are not really road warriors or
similar setups, but more in a line of SGW between two offices, and the
network can often be required to behave properly. I.e., if your
companies ISP drops all fragments, better switch to another ISP or
complain to ISP and require them to fix the issue. This is very
different than normal cases where there is no point of trying to get
big udp packets through the hotel captive portal, or nat etc.

We were mostly able to get IKE work with certificates and so even
before IKE fragmentation with similar packet sizes, and we do have
text in section 2 of the RFC7296 which says that implementation SHOULD
work with 3000 octets long packets:

   All IKEv2 implementations MUST be able to send, receive, and process
   IKE messages that are up to 1280 octets long, and they SHOULD be able
   to send, receive, and process messages that are up to 3000 octets
   long.  

This of course does not mean that long packets work through your
network, but in SGW <-> SGW setting that can quite often be taken care
of. IKEv2 implementations themselves should still work with such
packets if the network work.
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