Transport-Related Protocol-Design Issues - Lars Eggert
Transport-Related Protocol-Design Issues - Lars Eggert
Transport-Related Protocol-Design Issues - Lars Eggert
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Path MTU & Message Sizes<br />
Persistent IP-level fragmentation makes Internet<br />
communication brittle and inefficient<br />
– IPv4 ID field mis-assocation RFC 4963<br />
– Middleboxes commonly discard IP fragments<br />
– Allows for security vunerability<br />
<strong>Protocol</strong>s must adapt their message sizes to the MTU a<br />
given path can natively support<br />
– Or limit themselves to the minimum MTU, but that’s inefficient,<br />
too (header overhead)<br />
Do path maximum transmission unit (MTU) discovery<br />
– But ICMP can no longer be relied upon<br />
– Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 4821) is a<br />
solution, but requires hooks inside the protocol to work<br />
IETF-73, Minneapolis, MN, USA WG Chairs Training Lunch 11<br />
November 19, 2008<br />
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