Hi Janos, I think that is the minimum Link MTU and not the smallest size non-last fragment.
Can you point me to the RFC/ draft which says what you stated? Thanks, Vishwas -----Original Message----- From: Mohacsi Janos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 1:27 PM To: Vishwas Manral Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: IPv6 and Tiny Fragments On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Vishwas Manral wrote: > Hi folks, > > > > I have been wondering how IPv6 will deal with the tiny fragment attack, > RFC1858. > > > > Is there a minimum non-last fragment size specified for IPv6? With so > many extension headers a size of around 80bytes IP Header+ payload may > not necessarily be right. > It is defined to be larger than 1280 octets. Janos Mohacsi Network Engineer, Research Associate NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY Key 00F9AF98: 8645 1312 D249 471B DBAE 21A2 9F52 0D1F 00F9 AF98 > > > I think, we could specify something closer to 200 bytes, which would > mean that we would certainly have the TCP header in the first fragment. > > > > Thanks, > > Vishwas > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
