Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

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Hi, Masataka,

On 02/10/2016 03:05 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>> Reason #1: IP reassembly is already deployed.
> 
> The reality is that wise operators denied deployment of
> stupid idea of extension headers including that for IP
> reassembly.
> 
>> 	- now you want that info even further obscured by another
>> 	layer of encapsulation
> 
> Wrong. The worst kind of obscurity is a transport header at
> the end of a chain of 1000 or more IPv6 extension headers.
> 
> Note that the transport header may not be placed in the
> first fragment.
> 
> As following a long chain means vulnerability to DOS, there
> should be some upper bound on the chain length and the most
> reasonable value for the upper bound is 0, because all the
> extension headers are useless.

RFC7112 imposes some basic constraints: the entire EH chain must be
present in the first fragment.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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