On 01/03/2012 08:51 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: >> On 01/02/2012 07:48 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: >>> You'd need to go to the origins most likely and get into touch with them, >>> ask them, work with them to identify things and see if you can find a >>> common denominator... >>> >>> It might really be worth doing so; in case we are hunting misconfigurations >>> or bugs here and discussing the merits on how to handle other than drop;-) >> >> Why should you drop in this case, when it's trivial to process these >> fragments safely, with no side effects?? > > Because a fragment header that's not needed a) heats the planet, b-z) does > all the things what that means. The more we can force that not to happen > the better we are off.
Huh? If there was no way to avoid, problems, I'd agree. However, there is (see my I-D on IPv6 atomic fragments). Regarding the usefulness/need for atomic fragments, it had been described already by Ran Atkinson, Mark Andrews, and others. You want to filter them out? -- You break stuff. It's that simple. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
