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

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 07 November 2013 14:05 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Some stats on IPv6 fragments and EH filtering on the Internet
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Fernando Gont wrote:

>> If one deploys a 6500/7600/SUP720 and configures IPv6 on it today, it'll
>> slow-path every IPv6 packet with a fragmentation header. Default behaviour.
>
> But slow path != drop.

Since this platform does few megabits/s in slowpath, it's pretty close. 
Most reasonable people will deploy CoPP here and set low policer limits 
for this kind of traffic.

> Quickly skimming through the discussion it looks like a decision is made 
> to drop -- albeit for reasonable reasons. Am I missing something?

I'm sure there are some who set it to drop, and some set it to forward 
(both for good reasons), and some don't know and leave the default.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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