Re: Non-Last Small IPv6 Fragments

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Wed, 16 January 2019 08:04 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
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Subject: Re: Non-Last Small IPv6 Fragments
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, Fernando Gont wrote:

> In that case, we should be removing EHs in the fragmentable part (not
> that it would be a a big deal.. just pointing it out).

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6980 that you wrote talks about this. 
Having more generic wording that all headers must be in the first packet 
would make a lot of sense for the generic use-case. Do we have that 
requirement anywhere for generic IPv6 packets?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se