On 6/26/16, 2:00 AM, "joel jaeggli" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 6/25/16 8:21 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
>> Spencer Dawkins has entered the following ballot position for
>> draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-09: No Objection
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>> This was nice work.
>> 
>> I did have one question - I don't think it would be a likely problem,
>>but
>> is it worth pointing out that you're taking OSPFv3 payloads that might
>> have been sized for IPv6, and encapsulating them as IPv4 payloads that
>> might have a smaller MTU?
>
>Given that these devices have a common link mtu (otherwise they would
>have trouble forming adjcency over the broadcast domain) the opfv3
>payload will always be sized for the v6 network which means the ipv4
>variant of the packet packet will always be 20 bytes smaller due to the
>ipv6 header being 20 bytes larger then the v4 one..

Agreed. Additionally, if necessary, OSPFv3 can avail IP fragmentation and
reassembly. 

Thanks,
Acee 
>
>> If you tell me this isn't a problem, I'll believe you, of course, but I
>> needed to ask :-)
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