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

["Chip Popoviciu (cpopovic)" <cpopovic@cisco.com>]

But if the HbH is present, the packet will hit the slow path anyway so
performance penalties are there. If the HbH is not present then the
first header will be the fragmentation header.

Chip

-----Original Message-----
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:21 PM
To: Chip Popoviciu (cpopovic)
Cc: v6ops Operations
Subject: Re: New fragment header, was: Re: Evolution of the IP model -
ICMP and MTUs

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...