On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Pekka Savola wrote: > - The title should really be "IPv4 Fragmentation Considered Very > Harmful" plus some minor wording changes. The document does not as > written provide sufficient justification why IPv6 fragmentation should > be considered "very harmful" as IPv6 has 2^16 more bits of fragment > space, mandatory PMTUD, and routers not fragmenting packets. > > I have no problem that the draft also mentions how the considerations > also apply to IPv6, but not underlining that the serious problems > mentioned in the draft are IPv4-specific is not good.
I disagree. If you do the math, 2^32 * 1500 Bytes / MSL is only about one terabit/second, which we will probably hit in 10-20 years. I know that number sounds mind-boggling, but let me assure you than in the early 90's, when we were just getting FDDI (100 Mb/s) and DS-3's working in the wide area, 10 Gb/s was equally inconceivable. Thanks, --MM-- _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
