[139304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 Avian Carriers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Apr 1 21:53:48 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=xNO4wh75tnOnW+-VK1Ujhyiwu3fURRrm63nX3@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:49:28 -0700
To: nanog@thedaileyplanet.com
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
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> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
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> >
> > 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.
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> Owen
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