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No man is an island, But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them
together, they make a pretty good raft.
--Anon.
On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:34 AM, C. M. Heard wrote:
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).
Sorry, but no….
Not following the RFC != broken. Not following the RFC == non-compliant.
There are numerous places where implementations do not follow the specs for
various reasons, ranging from simply not bothering, through philosophical
differences to customers paying for non-compliant feature X.
Sorry, I'm in a somewhat pedantic mood, and I saw a soapbox, so I climbed up on
it…
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//cmh