Name: draft-mathis-frag-harmful-00
Title: Fragmentation Considered Very Harmful
State: Active
Authors: Matt Mathis
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-07-12
IPv4 fragmentation is not sufficiently robust for general use in today's
Internet. The 16-bit IP identification field is not large enough to prevent
frequent missassociated IP fragments and the TCP and UDP checksums are
insufficient to prevent the resulting corrupted data from being delivered
to higher protocol layers. In this note we describe some easily reproduced
experiments demonstrating the problem and estimate the scale the data
corruption in the presence of ever growing data rates.
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