Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

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On 02/09/2016 06:46 PM, Doug Royer wrote:
> On 02/09/2016 01:26 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>>
>> So if you have tunnels, fragmentation services are always ultimately
>> required.
> 
> And when broken (like with my ISP), I had to reduce my MTU to 1442.
> Because it looks like fragmentation is failing over any IPv6 connection
> I can use. Or perhaps its some kind of IPv6 restriction I can' find.

Dropping of IPv6 fragments is, unfortunately, widespread. Please see:
<https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-02.txt>.

Thanks!

Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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