Re: New fragment header, was: Re: Evolution of the IP model - ICMP and MTUs

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 19 aug 2008, at 18:17, Chip Popoviciu (cpopovic) wrote:

> Then might as well, put a fragment header on all packets so that  
> routers
> do not have to cross EH for upper layer info and also make things work
> with ESP as well.

:-)

> Regarding the position of the header, are you saying this header  
> will be
> ahead of HbH?

Well, that's the only way to avoid the current situation where  
filtering devices have to hunt for the UDP or TCP header, which they  
either don't do or incurs performance penalties...