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Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Fri, 12 February 2016 04:32 UTC

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From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
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Subject: Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:31 +0900." <56BD58DF.9020508@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:32:08 +1100
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In message <56BD58DF.9020508@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>, Masataka Ohta writes:
> > Only poor purchasing decisions causing everyone else to have to
> > work around them.
> 
> It is caused primarily by stupid design of IPv6.
> 
> 						Masataka Ohta

Given you see the same stupidity of devices dropping IPv4 fragments
I don't think you can attribute that to IPv6.

Mark
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