On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Francis Dupont<[email protected]> wrote: > In your previous mail you wrote: > > I strongly recommend that people read section 1 of RFC 2765. Here is some of > the relevant text: > > Fragmented IPv4 UDP packets that do not contain a UDP checksum (i.e. > the UDP checksum field is zero) are not of significant use over > wide-areas in the Internet and will not be translated by the > translator. An informal trace [MILLER] in the backbone showed that > out of 34,984,468 IP packets there were 769 fragmented UDP packets > with a zero checksum. However, all of them were due to malicious or > broken behavior; a port scan and first fragments of IP packets that > are not a multiple of 8 bytes. > > => G. Miller message is 10 year old so should be even more valid today. > Thanks for the quote, IMHO the subject can be closed (again).
it's 10 years old, from a single network link, in what I suspect was VBNS+, so not even today's internet (scale or applications or users or traffic levels or uses) So I'm not sure it's applicable at all to today, or the discusison ongoing. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
