Re: [v6ops] Fragments [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Wed, 28 May 2014 14:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Fragments [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]
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Hi,

On 28 May 2014, at 15:23, Philip Homburg <pch-v6ops-3a@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:

> In your letter dated Wed, 28 May 2014 14:15:48 +0000 you wrote:
>>> Tests that Fernando and I reported at the last IEPG show around 50% of the Alexa top 
>> 1m sites which
>>> support IPv6 also drop frags.  Tests for other types of EH are far from encouraging t
>> oo.
>> 
>> Then, how are we ever going to support tunnels over IPv6?
> 
> Measurements using RIPE Atlas suggest that most filtering is done near the edges.
> So if you want a tunnel, make sure that your site and the remote site don't do that
> kind of filtering.
> 
> In addition, fragmentation involving DNS seems to work way better than sending
> fragmented packets to the Alexa top 1m sites. So the kind of filtering you encounter
> may also depend on where you look.

Do you have a pointer to these results?

Thanks,
Tim