Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 05 September 2019 00:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)
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On 4/9/19 16:43, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
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> 
>> albeit that the tunnel tail now has to reassemble. At speeds typically
>> much higher than a typical end host.
> 
> Using iperf3, I can show fragmentation and reassembly at near line-rate on 10Gbps
> Ethernet gear. That seems pretty good to me. Which shows that implementers
> have taken IP fragmentation seriously and put in the hard work necessary to
> optimize the performance.

Have you ever checked the number of CVEs related to fragmentation?


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