On 01/27/2012 08:36 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> And I see no functional difference between the gateway and the host
> generating the fragment ID, except that the latter approach seems to
> require network-wide software updates currently.

Namely, are you saying that Linux won't react to an ICMPv6 PTB<1280 by
inserting a Fragment Header in subsequent packets, or what? (last time I
checked, I think this was the case)

As noted by Dan Wing, there's stuff that would break.

In any, please note the difference between *accepting* atomic fragments,
generating ICMPv6 PTB when the MTU of the constricting link is < 1280,
and reacting to ICMPv6 PTB by generating atomic fragments.

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Fernando Gont
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