Re: 6MAN WG Last Call:draft-ietf-6man-overlap-fragment-01.txt

[Christian Vogt <christian.vogt at ericsson.com>]

On May 28, 2009, Vishwas Manral wrote:

> The draft already contains the below:
>
>  "IPv6 nodes transmitting datagrams that need to be fragmented MUST  
> NOT
>   create overlapping fragments.  IPv6 nodes that receive a fragment
>   that overlaps with a previously received fragment MUST cease the
>   reassembly process and MUST discard the previously received  
> fragments
>   with the same IPv6 Source Address, IPv6 Destination Address and
>   Fragment Identification."
>
> What more are you suggesting?


Vishwas -

The above text relates to the sender and the receiver of
fragmented packets, as far as I can tell.  My suggesting relates to
firewalls between that sender and receiver.

- Christian