Re: [Int-area] Discussion about Section 6.1 in draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile

Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 13 September 2019 19:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Discussion about Section 6.1 in draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile
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> On Sep 11, 2019, at 7:50 AM, Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> wrote:
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> Second, the problem with the logic that “bigger avoids fragmentation” is that the very specification of ANY minimum MTU, coupled with IP-in-IP tunnels (for their own sake, or as part of IPsec tunnel mode), ends up then requiring fragmentation. There’s no way around that - once there’s a required minimum and once it’s recursive, the game is over.

Indeed.

My perception is that the larger the difference between the packet size sent and the smallest link MTU the packet will encounter, the lower the probability that the packet will get fragmented in flight - in IPv4 - or will result in an ICMP PTB message. The only size that completely prevents those outcomes is to not send the packet.