Hi Fernando, I think this is an essential message that needs to be added as part of the draft.
Thanks, Vishwas On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Fernando Gont <[email protected]>wrote: > Folks, > > There's one issue that came up during my recent exchange with Suresh on > which I'd like others (including Suresh) to weigh in: > > Since first-fragments that fail to include the entire header chain will > be illegal, I think it would be appropriate to include an additional > requirement in draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain along the lines of: > > "A host that receives a first-fragment that fails to include the entire > IPv6 header chain MUST silently drop the aforementioned fragment". > > Clearly, since such packets are illegal, they shouldn't exist in the > first place... so dropping them makes sense. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks! > > Best regards, > -- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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