Hi James, > -----Original Message----- > From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > james woodyatt > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:23 AM > To: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation > function > > On Jul 10, 2013, at 08:49 , Ronald Bonica <rbon...@juniper.net> wrote: > > [...] > > Probably, the best alternative is for the tunnel ingress router to > tunnel ingress router to discover the PMTU to the egress. When the > tunnel ingress router receives a packet that is so large that it cannot > be forwarded through the tunnel, it discards the packet and sends an > ICMP PTB to the packet's originator. The packet's originator then > modifies its sending behavior based upon its new estimate of the PMTU > associated with the destination. > > [...] > > ICMPv6 packet too big errors are unreliable on the real-world Internet. > > I hate to sound like a broken record, but I will: I look forward to > reviewing a proposal to update to Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 [RFC > 2473] for implementing tunnel path MTU discovery at the encapsulation > layer [c.f. RFC 4821].
Wrap your RFC2473 tunnel in SEAL and you are good to go (see draft-templin-intarea-seal). A quick read of Section 4 of my new draft should be all you need to understand what I'm talking about: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-generic-6man-tunfrag-08 Note however that all the tunnel needs is a limited application of RFC4821 to ensure that the *required* packet sizes are accommodated. For larger packets, assume that the hosts sending large packets are using RFC4821 themselves (so the tunnel doesn't have to). All the tunnel needs to do is "take care of the smalls, and let the bigs take care of themselves". Thanks - Fred fred.l.temp...@boeing.com > -- > james woodyatt <j...@apple.com> > core os networking > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------
