Yes, I am talking about IPv6 fragmentation.
Ron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Templin, Fred L [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:56 PM
> To: Ronald Bonica; james woodyatt; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation
> function
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> > Of Ronald Bonica
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:22 PM
> > To: james woodyatt; [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation
> > function
> >
> > Hi James,
> >
> > If ICMPv6 PTB messages are unreliable, fragmentation breaks just as
> > badly as PMTUD.
>
> I'm trying to understand that, but maybe you are talking about IP
> fragmentation? SEAL fragmentation is a different thing, and can be used
> in place of IP fragmentation.
>
> Thanks - Fred
> [email protected]
>
> > At the risk of going off-topic, please take a look at draft-bonica-
> > intarea-gre-mtu-02.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf
> > Of
> > > james woodyatt
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:23 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation
> > > function
> > >
> > > On Jul 10, 2013, at 08:49 , Ronald Bonica <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > Probably, the best alternative is for the tunnel ingress router
> to
> > > tunnel ingress router to discover the PMTU to the egress. When the
> > > tunnel ingress router receives a packet that is so large that it
> > cannot
> > > be forwarded through the tunnel, it discards the packet and sends
> an
> > > ICMP PTB to the packet's originator. The packet's originator then
> > > modifies its sending behavior based upon its new estimate of the
> > > PMTU associated with the destination.
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > ICMPv6 packet too big errors are unreliable on the real-world
> > Internet.
> > >
> > > I hate to sound like a broken record, but I will: I look forward to
> > > reviewing a proposal to update to Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6
> > [RFC
> > > 2473] for implementing tunnel path MTU discovery at the
> > > encapsulation layer [c.f. RFC 4821].
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > james woodyatt <[email protected]>
> > > core os networking
> > >
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