Hi, if you are concerned about a chain of extension headers not fitting within the first fragment you might want to take a look at SEAL where it is physically impossible to create fragments smaller than 256 bytes.
Thanks - Fred fred.l.temp...@boeing.com > -----Original Message----- > From: i-d-announce-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:i-d-announce- > boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of internet-dra...@ietf.org > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 2:08 PM > To: i-d-annou...@ietf.org > Cc: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-03.txt > > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the > IETF. > > Title : Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains > Author(s) : Fernando Gont > Vishwas Manral > Ronald P. Bonica > Filename : draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-03.txt > Pages : 12 > Date : 2013-07-15 > > Abstract: > The IPv6 specification allows IPv6 header chains of an arbitrary > size. The specification also allows options which can in turn > extend > each of the headers. In those scenarios in which the IPv6 header > chain or options are unusually long and packets are fragmented, or > scenarios in which the fragment size is very small, the first > fragment of a packet may fail to include the entire IPv6 header > chain. This document discusses the interoperability and security > problems of such traffic, and updates RFC 2460 such that the first > fragment of a packet is required to contain the entire IPv6 header > chain. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-03 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header- > chain-03 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > _______________________________________________ > I-D-Announce mailing list > i-d-annou...@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce > Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html > or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
