Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

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On 02/08/2016 09:08 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:06 PM Fernando Gont <fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/08/2016 08:20 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>     > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@xxxxxxx
>     <mailto:cabo@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >> Ronald Bonica wrote:
>     >>> The words "many" and "some" don't do justice to the
>     conversation. 
>     https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-02
>     provides more concrete numbers from real-world observation.
>     >>
>     >> Ah, but the result is much simpler.
>     >>
>     >> Some other real world data (Google QUIC experiments) already tell us
>     >> that a sizable part of the Internet (was it 7 %?) is not
>     reachable via
>     >> UDP at all.  This just ups that number slightly for IPv6 and UDP
>     >> protocols that don't have their own segmentation.
>     >>
>     >> UDP, it was nice to have known you.
>     >
>     > Maybe what we needed all along was a better TCP that allowed data to
>     > be sent on the first packet.
> 
>     FWIW, TCP does allow you to send data in the SYN.
> 
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413 for those who are wondering. 

Even pre-fast open TCP already allowed this -- however, those data can
only be *consumed* once the 3WHS is complete...

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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