Say Brian and authors of this draft, What is a compelling reason to ease the checksums in IPv6 UDP packets on the outer packet? It may be an optimization, but if the authors can give a compelling reason why the UDP checksum skip on the outer packet is so critically required, it would be a good start.
Thanks Hemant -----Original Message----- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian Haberman Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:21 AM To: IPv6 WG Mailing List Subject: [Fwd: I-D Action:draft-eubanks-chimento-6man-00.txt] All, The below referenced draft was composed in response to a problem encountered in the mboned working group. There is a proposal there that allows for the encapsulation of multicast traffic within a unicast tunnel in order to traverse unicast-only networks. This draft proposes to ease the rule on checksums in IPv6 UDP packets. I have asked that discussion of this draft occur on the 6MAN mailing list. In case anyone is interested in more of the background material, the draft requiring this change is draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-09.txt. Regards, Bian -------- Original Message -------- Subject: I-D Action:draft-eubanks-chimento-6man-00.txt Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:45:01 -0800 (PST) From: internet-dra...@ietf.org Reply-To: internet-dra...@ietf.org To: i-d-annou...@ietf.org A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets Author(s) : M. Eubanks Filename : draft-eubanks-chimento-6man-00.txt Pages : 7 Date : 2009-02-23 We address the problem of computing the UDP checksum on tunneling IPv6 packets when using lightweight tunneling protocols. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-eubanks-chimento-6man-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
