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Re: Non-Last Small IPv6 Fragments

Simon Hobson <linux@thehobsons.co.uk> Fri, 11 January 2019 18:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: Non-Last Small IPv6 Fragments
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Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:

> ... enforce limits ...

The guidance also needs to suggest sensible limits - otherwise what one implementer (eg the Linux stack that discards any small fragment that isn't the last) may not interoperate with another (eg make the last two fragments approximately equal in size). In a significant part, that seems to have been what this thread has been about - what is reasonable guidance for this.

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