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

Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> Tue, 16 October 2012 18:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop
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On 16/10/2012 19:20, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> This report is troubling to me.

yeah, i suspect that the root cause is that it's difficult to process
arbitrarily positioned tlv based headers in hardware.

Nick