The mandate is on the fragmentation is on the transmitting side (the one that applies the fragmentation). The receiving side may reassemble these packets. From at least one implementation (Open BSD) there is no such check. Also the TAHI test doesn't test for this case. All of the above and the common sense says that the receiver should assemble these packets.
Hope this helps! Shuki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:42 AM To: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Fragmented IPv6 packets I have a question on IPv6 fragments. Since IPv6 mandates a minimum MTU of 1280, IPv6 fragments (except the last fragment) should be of minimum 1280 bytes right? When an end host receives an IPv6 fragment which is lesser than 1280 bytes ( except the last fragment ) , should it treat it as invalid and drop it or should it still consider the fragment for reassembly. Are there any IPv6 implementations which reassemble them? Thanks, Muthu -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
