Re: [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-haas-bfd-large-packets-00.txt]

PFFC JHAAS <jhaas@pfrc.org> Tue, 20 March 2018 11:30 UTC

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Thanks for your comments, Greg. 

Non tcp applications like financial stuff are an excellent example. 

Jeff

> On Mar 20, 2018, at 10:40, Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> thank you for bringing up for discussion this interesting proposal. A question and a comment ahead of the meeting to save us time:
> which applications will benefit from monitoring path MTU (PMTU) rather from using PMTU discovery and updating the value;
> note that "The Don't Fragment bit (Section 2.3 of [RFC0791]) of the IP payload, when using IP encapsulations, MUST be set." is only applicable to IPv4 environment as IPv6 does not allow IP fragmentation.
> Regards,
> Greg
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> wrote:
>> Working Group,
>> 
>> A trivial draft I'm hoping to present in the upcoming BFD session if there's
>> time.
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Forwarded message from internet-drafts@ietf.org -----
>> 
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>> 
>> 
>>         Title           : BFD Encapsulated in Large Packets
>>         Authors         : Jeffrey Haas
>>                           Albert Fu
>>         Filename        : draft-haas-bfd-large-packets-00.txt
>>         Pages           : 5
>>         Date            : 2018-03-19
>> 
>> Abstract:
>>    The Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol is commonly
>>    used to verify connectivity between two systems.  BFD packets are
>>    typically very small.  It is desirable in some circumstances to know
>>    that not only is the path between two systems reachable, but also
>>    that it is capable of carrying a payload of a particular size.  This
>>    document discusses thoughts on how to implement such a mechanism
>>    using BFD in Asynchronous mode.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-haas-bfd-large-packets/
>> 
>> There are also htmlized versions available at:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-haas-bfd-large-packets-00
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-haas-bfd-large-packets-00
>> 
>> 
>> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission
>> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
>> 
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>> 
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>> 
>

[internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-haas… Jeffrey Haas
Re: [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-… Greg Mirsky
Re: [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-… PFFC JHAAS
Re: [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-… Jeffrey Haas