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

[Tom Herbert <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Joe Touch <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I still think it would be useful for this doc to describe how tunnels interact with fragmentation (per draft-ietf-intarea-tunnels), which seems to be something I’ve noted several times before.
>
> I’m also still not thrilled with the title I’d be happier with “IP fragmentation still not supported per requirements”, and I’d have to see where this goes with final recommendations.
>
> But I agree *some* statement is worthwhile here. My primary concern is that if we’re not careful, endorsing the status quo will only ensure nothing changes.
>
> So I sincerely hope that some of the strongest recommendations here are that both direct IP devices and tunnel ingress/egress devices need to do a better job of supporting fragmentation, and that protocol/device designers SHOULD avoid mechanisms that are not compatible with fragmentation (e.g., NAT or DPI without doing reassembly first).
>
I agree.

Specifically, I think there should be a requrement that intermediate
devices don't rely on doing DPI into transport layer, or if they need
it then they should do some sort of pseudo reassmbly as Joe alludes
to. Note that section 4.4 describes the problem of of fragmentation
going through a load balancing (e.g. ECMP) where transport ports are
used in the algorithm. This is solved in IPv6 by using flow label in
the hash instead of transport layer ports, so I think that use of flow
label for this purpose should be recommended somewhere in section 7.

Tom

> Joe
>
>> On Jul 24, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Wassim Haddad <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We would like to start a WG adoption call for draft-bonica-intarea-frag-fragile (“IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile”).
>>
>> https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bonica-intarea-frag-fragile-03.txt
>>
>>
>> Please indicate your preferences on the mailling list. The deadline is August 10th.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Juan & Wassim
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