Re: [Hipsec] Segmentation within HIP

Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> Tue, 29 March 2016 14:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Hipsec] Segmentation within HIP
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That is why I recommended you look at what Sue and I are developing for 
a session layer service on top of any transport that would provide 
this.  And of course it is always worthwhile to look at anything Joe 
Touch worked on....

On 03/29/2016 02:50 AM, Derek Fawcus wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 08:47:02PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> For starters i would look at the UDP NAT tunneling mechinism to provide it.
> Well,  UDP doesn't have any native segmentation / reassembly either;
> so while it would help in getting across a NAT,  it'd not do anything
> for fragments.
>
> I could see someone digging out the scheme which was proposed a while
> ago for UDP segmentation,  and casting it to fit within
> draft-touch-tsvwg-udp-options-02.txt.
>
> DF
>