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

[Hannes Frederic Sowa <[e-mail]>]

Hi Fernando,

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 03:01:48PM -0800, Fernando Gont wrote:
> I did a presentation on the topic at the IEPG meeting earlier this week.
> It provides some concrete data regarding IPv6 fragmentation and
> Extension Header filtering on the Internet.
> 
> The slideware is available at:
> <http://www.iepg.org/2013-11-ietf88/fgont-iepg-ietf88-ipv6-frag-and-eh.pdf>
> 
> 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.

We had some some bugs in path MTU handling in the linux IPv6 stack which
will get resolved with the next stable kernels.

If such an experiment is repeated I would suggest keeping a tcpdump of
the traffic and an ip -6 monitor route log while doing this experiment.

I currently don't know if we report path MTU events back up to user space,
and if not, it will be hard to do so because that would confuse user space
routing daemons which already listen for route change notifications. But
for such an experiment I could provide such a patch. It would be nice
that we don't drop path mtu discovery on such busy boxes because of
regular routing garbage collector pressure or just because of bugs.

Greetings,

  Hannes