[157047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dropping IPv6 Fragments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sander Steffann)
Thu Oct 4 10:29:02 2012
From: Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20121004142058.GA19770@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 16:26:45 +0200
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
>> Who drops IPv6 fragments in their network, under what circumstances?
>=20
> No one who offers working IP connections.
>=20
> Dropping IPv6 fragments against your control-plane, that is another
> discussion, but dropping them in transit would be short-lived =
exercise.
Depends on where you are looking. In the core network dropping fragments =
is not that common AFAIK. The closer you get to the edge the more common =
it might become...
- Sander
