On 01/05/2012 07:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Supporting small fragments has high hidden costs.  Some of them are
> addressed by the larger fragment ID in IPv6, but not all of them.  There
> is still no way to authenticate an incoming ICMPv6 PTB message, so you

RFC 5927 is your friend. Check for "progress" on the corresponding
connections on which you've received the packet.

For UDP, forget it. Actually, the idea of using state (as the PMTU
information) with a state-less protocol (such as UDP) should (by itself)
raise concerns.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
e-mail: ferna...@gont.com.ar || fg...@si6networks.com
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