On Jul 20, 2011, at 14:35 , RJ Atkinson wrote: > One hopes IPv6 implementers will be tolerant of IPv6 MTUs below 1280 bytes, > because they do exist in the deployed world and aren't going away anytime > soon.
Those hopes are not well placed. I am aware of at least one packet filter implementation-- which might be refined in the future, one hopes, to conform fully with RFC 6092-- that treats this behavior as a resource exhaustion attack and drops flows accordingly. -- james woodyatt <[email protected]> member of technical staff, core os networking -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
