Re: [v6ops] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-wkumari-long-headers-01.txt

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Fri, 05 July 2013 13:36 UTC

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On 7/5/2013 6:19 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 05/07/2013 14:13, Joe Touch wrote:
>> I don't think that's possible unless you also protect "against" fragments
>> altogether, and I don't think that is the job of a router.
>
> so you're ok about the idea of having a router sitting on the Internet DFZ
> which you can take down with 20kpps of ipv6 fragments,

The router ought to be able to forward at that rate. Unless these are 
addressed *to* the router they don't cause the router a problem. If they 
are, then limiting the forwarding chain won't help because these aren't 
forwarded by that router.

Joe