Which? African or European Swallows? (Watches Chad fly over the cliff edge) ;-)
Owen On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Chad Dailey wrote: > Swallows have MTU issues. > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > > > > On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:41 11AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote: > > > >> I was wondering which April 1st this would happen on. Now I know. So if > >> a v6 carrier swallows a v4 datagram does that count as packet loss or > >> tunneling? > >> > >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/ > >> > > > > I was disappointed in this RFC -- Section 3.1 didn't include the proper > > discussion of the difference between African and European avian carriers, > > and we know what happens if that question is asked at the wrong time. > >> > > > > > > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb > > > > > > > > > > > That applies to swallows. I'm not sure pidgeons pose the same issue. I think > in general, swallows > provide poor platforms for avian transport of IP datagrams. > > > Owen > > > >
