This works, too. But now we have three participants in the discussion and three opinions!
Let's just pick one! Does anybody have a coin? Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Ole Troan > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:37 AM > To: C.M.Heard > Cc: IPv6 > Subject: Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header- > chain-04> > > > The reason I didn't suggest pointing at the Fragment Header is > because > > it would carry the same information that it would in a correctly > > fragmented packet, namely M=1 and Fragment Offset=0 (the signature of > > an initial fragment). The Payload Length field is what indicates > that > > the fragment is too short to contain all the extension headers and > the > > upper layer header; its value would have to be different in a > > legitimate packet. Hence my suggestion to point there. > > or set the pointer field to 0? given that there really isn't an octet > offset where an error has been detected. > > cheers, > Ole -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------