Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Mon, 22 October 2012 12:44 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> So, what do we do?  Do we:
>
> - ignore the problem
> - issue generic advice
> - name and shame
> - other

Another data point:

<http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-September/040653.html>

So quite a lot of people running SUP720 will in the end disable IPv6 
fragment acl:s using the command provided. Quite a few others will not 
know about this and will thus give very different service to packets with 
fragmentation header and those without fragmentation header.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se