[157046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dropping IPv6 Fragments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Taylor)
Thu Oct 4 10:27:26 2012
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:25:46 -0400
From: Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20121004142058.GA19770@pob.ytti.fi>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 04/10/2012 10:20 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2012-10-04 10:16 -0400), Tom Taylor wrote:
>
>> Who drops IPv6 fragments in their network, under what circumstances?
>
> No one who offers working IP connections.
>
> Dropping IPv6 fragments against your control-plane, that is another
> discussion, but dropping them in transit would be short-lived exercise.
>
Let's talk control plane, then. Under what circumstances do fragments
get dropped?
