Re: [Int-area] WG Adoption Call: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Sun, 29 July 2018 15:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] WG Adoption Call: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
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> On Jul 28, 2018, at 11:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>> because DPI and NAT devices don’t reassemble. And they don’t because it’s cheaper to sell devices that say they run at 1 Gbps (e.g.) that don’t bother to reassemble.
> 
> Keeping lots of state is always more expensive than not keeping state, and customers like lower cost devices.

Yes, but they need to be told that their device is “hobbled”.

>> So pushing this to another layer will never solve it. What will solve it will only be a compliance requirement for #6 - which could be done right now, and has to be done for ANY solution to work.
> 
> Where is that Internet Protocol Police when you need it? I appreciate your struggle, but I don't see how you will succeed in your struggle, in reality.
> 
> So I prefer to recommend not to rely on IP level fragmentation, and fragment at higher layers. It works better in reality.


Until it doesn’t, for exactly the same reason it isn’t working at IP.

You’re engaging in a game of escalation - whatever layer you add fragmentation will end up being a layer that a vendor puts a device that does DPI that fails.

Joe