Hi Christian, Ok. I think to make it more generic we can call it a middlebox instead of a firewall alone.
The text could be : "IPv6 nodes or middleboxes that receive a fragment that overlaps with a previously received fragment MUST cease the reassembly process and MUST discard the previously received fragments with the same IPv6 Source Address, IPv6 Destination Address and Fragment Identification." Thanks, Vishwas On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Christian Vogt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 28, 2009, Vishwas Manral wrote: > >> The draft already contains the below: >> >> "IPv6 nodes transmitting datagrams that need to be fragmented MUST NOT >> create overlapping fragments. IPv6 nodes that receive a fragment >> that overlaps with a previously received fragment MUST cease the >> reassembly process and MUST discard the previously received fragments >> with the same IPv6 Source Address, IPv6 Destination Address and >> Fragment Identification." >> >> What more are you suggesting? > > > Vishwas - > > The above text relates to the sender and the receiver of > fragmented packets, as far as I can tell. My suggesting relates to > firewalls between that sender and receiver. > > - Christian > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
