Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-intarea-ipv4-id-update-05.txt> (Updated Speci

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> Existing routers, which was relying on ID uniqueness of atomic
> packets, are now broken when they fragment the atomic packets.
Such routers were always broken.  An atomic packet has DF=0 and any 
router fragmenting such a packet was and is non-compliant with 
the relevant specifications (RFCs 791, 1122, 1812).

//cmh