Folks, We're currently editing the aforementioned I-D. So far, the I-D just required that the entire IPv6 header chain be present in the first fragment.
Based on recent/ongoing discussions on the 6man and v6ops lists, there seems to be quite a few folks pushing the idea of limiting the size f the IPv6 header chain to some value (typically in the order of a few hundred bytes). An earlier version of draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain limited the header chain to 1280 bytes, but this requirement was later removed. However, since then a number of folks have produced real world data which indicates that packets "won't make it to the destination node" if the header chain is larger than a few hundred bytes, and I believe that, overall, our understanding of the problem and situation has increased since then. My question to th wg is: 1) Do we want to limit the size of the IPv6 header chain? 2) If so, which limit should we pick? Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
