Re: [v6ops] Some stats on IPv6 fragments and EH filtering on the Internet

In message <52783535.9030200@si6networks.com>, Fernando Gont writes:
> On 11/04/2013 03:32 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> >>
> >> Certainly there's *much* more work to be done in this area, but I
> >> thought that this could be good food sfor some of the discussions that
> >> we were having on the topic.
> > 
> > "Operators are known to filter IPv6 fragments". This kind of writing
> 
> Isn't there a v6ops I-D with similar wording?
> 
> 
> > implies intent, right? 
> 
> mm... as far as discussion on a number of forums went, apparently
> there's intent to do so.

There is also often no intent.  The defaults drop fragmented packets
any you have to explicitly pass them.

> > Most of the "filtering" I would say is due to
> > default device behavior, where no intent exists on the operator.
> 
> Data? References?

*BSD firewall drop by default.  For all flavours of firewall supported.
e.g. ipfw, ipf.

> > So I'd
> > rather see this changes to "IPv6 fragment header packets are having a
> > severely degraded network experience" or something like that.
> 
> Well, the preso is out there, already. :-(
> 
> 
> 
> > Otherwise, great work. I would like to see traceroute or alike done with
> > these kinds of packets headers also, to see where packets are dropped.
> 
> Yep. This is in my TODO list. Hopefully we will cooperate with Tim
> (Chown) et al to take these measurements further.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Fernando Gont
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