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Re: IPv6 day and tunnels
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 17:57:06 -0700
On Jun 4, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
Joe Maimon wrote:pMTU has been broken in IPv4 since the early days.It is still broken. It is also broken in IPv6. It will likely still be broken for the forseeable future. This isRelying on ICMP exception messages was always wrong for normal network operation.Agreed. The proper solution is to have a field in IPv7 header to measure PMTU. It can be a 8 bit field, if fragment granularity is 256B. Masataka Ohta
If you're going to redesign the header, I'd be much more interested in having 32 bits for the destination ASN so that IDR can ignore IP prefixes altogether. Owen
Current thread:
- RE: IPv6 day and tunnels, (continued)
- RE: IPv6 day and tunnels Templin, Fred L (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Jeroen Massar (Jun 04)
- RE: IPv6 day and tunnels Templin, Fred L (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Jeroen Massar (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Joe Maimon (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Jeroen Massar (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Mark Andrews (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Owen DeLong (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Joe Maimon (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Masataka Ohta (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Owen DeLong (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Jeroen Massar (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Owen DeLong (Jun 04)
- New routing systems (Was: IPv6 day and tunnels) Jeroen Massar (Jun 05)
- Re: New routing systems (Was: IPv6 day and tunnels) Owen DeLong (Jun 05)
- Re: New routing systems (Was: IPv6 day and tunnels) Jeroen Massar (Jun 05)
- RE: IPv6 day and tunnels Templin, Fred L (Jun 05)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Masataka Ohta (Jun 05)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Owen DeLong (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Jimmy Hess (Jun 04)
- Re: IPv6 day and tunnels Owen DeLong (Jun 04)