Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

Joe Touch wrote:

> Reason #1: IP reassembly is already deployed.

The reality is that wise operators denied deployment of
stupid idea of extension headers including that for IP
reassembly.

> 	- now you want that info even further obscured by another
> 	layer of encapsulation

Wrong. The worst kind of obscurity is a transport header at
the end of a chain of 1000 or more IPv6 extension headers.

Note that the transport header may not be placed in the
first fragment.

As following a long chain means vulnerability to DOS, there
should be some upper bound on the chain length and the most
reasonable value for the upper bound is 0, because all the
extension headers are useless.

						Masataka Ohta