On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Bhatia, Manav (Manav) <[email protected]> wrote: > Yakov, > >> Actually, I think Stewart was referring to >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lowpan-hc-13 . >> >> If there are several proposals on the table, albeit for special cases, >> to make the UDP checksum optional, then we can propose that >> operation too. > > Alternatively, we could just keep this within our WG and add the following to > the 1588oMPLS draft: > > LSRs that adjust the CF field MAY not update the UDP checksum in case of > IPv6. The node that terminates the tunnel MUST recompute the UDP checksum > after MPLS decapsulation and before any further processing.
I would prefer this over a proposal for deprecating UDP checksum for IPv6. Each 1588aware LSR that updates the CF is anyways updating the ethernet FCS, which should be good enough to verify the basic integrity of the packet. My 0.02$ Jack _______________________________________________ TICTOC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tictoc
