Hi, David and Alia,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Black, David <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Suresh,
>
> Regarding your Discuss:
>
> > * Section 3.1.2 : I am trying to understand why a minimum TTL decrement
> > is expected here. I think the mandated behavior is incorrect and needs to
> > be fixed.
> >
> >    For L3 service, Tenant Systems should expect the IPv4 TTL (Time to
> >    Live) or IPv6 Hop Limit in the packets they send to be decremented by
> >    at least 1.
> >
> > e.g. Consider two IPv6 end systems that are connected using an L3
> > service. If one of them is the router and another is a host on the same
> > network a significant part of the Neighbor Discovery functions will stop
> > working if the hop limit is decremented (from 255 to 254).
>
> In that example, the two IPV6 end systems need to be connected by a
> virtual link that provides L2 service, e.g. to make ND and ARP work.   Do
> you  have suggestions for text to add (and where to add it) that would
> make this clearer?
>
> > * For an architecture based on tunnels I found the lack of discussion
> > concerning MTUs and fragmentation a bit disconcerting. Has the WG
> > discussed this?
>
> Well, IMHO,  observing the intarea WG's level of engagement here, I
> don't think more "cooks" are needed on this topic .   It'd be reasonable
> to add a sentence on this topic pointing to the intarea tunnels draft.
>
> Thanks, --David
>

Thanks to both of you for helping me understand this better.

Spencer
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