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

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Tue, 05 November 2013 03:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Some stats on IPv6 fragments and EH filtering on the Internet
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On 5 Nov 2013, at 03:23, Jen Linkova <furry13@gmail.com> wrote:

> -v6ops@ to minimize the noise
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:
>>>> It could be verified by checking the hop limit from the your machine
>>>> to the server you are testing and then vary the hop limits of probe
>>>> packets - so you can see when you stop receiving 'time exceeded’.
>>> 
>>> Modifying traceroute itself to slip in some extension headers might be useful?  Much as you can check DSCP rewrites, for example.
>> 
>> FWIW, I'm in the process of updating the toolkit to support this sort of
>> thing.. Should have something along these lines shortly.
> 
> It would be interesting to do such measurements using Atlas but AFAIR
> it does not have an option to send packets with extension headers..
> Just curious - have you contacted RIPE Atlas guys? I could ask them if
> you think it makes sense.

While I love the idea of the Atlas project, and have a probe myself, I tried asking them whether I could do just basic HTTP monitoring with my probe, and that wasn’t possible, so I’m not optimistic that a general probe user could just add such tests. 

I suspect it would need some significant code updates from the developers. But measuring probe to probe would certainly be useful, so it would be nice to see at some point… some of the Atlas people are here, so we might get some idea of a timeline if it is possible… :)

Tim

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