Hi, Joel and Acee,

On Jun 26, 2016 06:15, "Acee Lindem (acee)" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 6/26/16, 2:00 AM, "joel jaeggli" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >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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> >> COMMENT:
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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 for the quick responses!

The authors might consider making that assumption explicit, but this was a
comment, not a Discuss, so just do the right thing, whatever that is :-)

Spencer

> 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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