Thanks for your comments, Greg. Non tcp applications like financial stuff are an excellent example.
Jeff > On Mar 20, 2018, at 10:40, Greg Mirsky <gregimir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > thank you for bringing up for discussion this interesting proposal. A > question and a comment ahead of the meeting to save us time: > which applications will benefit from monitoring path MTU (PMTU) rather from > using PMTU discovery and updating the value; > note that "The Don't Fragment bit (Section 2.3 of [RFC0791]) of the IP > payload, when using IP encapsulations, MUST be set." is only applicable to > IPv4 environment as IPv6 does not allow IP fragmentation. > Regards, > Greg > >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> wrote: >> Working Group, >> >> A trivial draft I'm hoping to present in the upcoming BFD session if there's >> time. >> >> >> ----- Forwarded message from internet-dra...@ietf.org ----- >> >> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts >> directories. >> >> >> Title : BFD Encapsulated in Large Packets >> Authors : Jeffrey Haas >> Albert Fu >> Filename : draft-haas-bfd-large-packets-00.txt >> Pages : 5 >> Date : 2018-03-19 >> >> Abstract: >> The Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol is commonly >> used to verify connectivity between two systems. BFD packets are >> typically very small. It is desirable in some circumstances to know >> that not only is the path between two systems reachable, but also >> that it is capable of carrying a payload of a particular size. This >> document discusses thoughts on how to implement such a mechanism >> using BFD in Asynchronous mode. >> >> >> >> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-haas-bfd-large-packets/ >> >> There are also htmlized versions available at: >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-haas-bfd-large-packets-00 >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-haas-bfd-large-packets-00 >> >> >> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission >> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. >> >> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: >> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ >> >> ----- End forwarded message ----- >> >
