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Re: Path MTU Discovery

Ran Atkinson <rja@inet.org> Sat, 08 February 1997 09:06 UTC

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From: Ran Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
Subject: Re: Path MTU Discovery
To: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@aurora.cis.upenn.edu>, Dan McDonald <Dan.McDonald@Eng.sun.com>
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Dan McD is correct (and the RFC-1827 ESP spec has a bug).

Fragmentation processing occurs _after_ all outbound IPsec processing
and _before_ all inbound IPsec processing.  This should be for ESP
as well as for AH.

Ideally this will get corrected in the new ESP spec.

Mea Culpa.

Ran
rja@inet.org

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