Re: [lwip-users] lwip IPv6 setup (was Re: Stable release with IPv6 support)

[Guillaume Fortaine]

Dear Mister Goldschmidt,

Thank you for your reply.


> Plus I can't see why I'm on CC.

Because you are one of the main committers of the project :-)

Best Regards,

Guillaume FORTAINE


On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:10 PM, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please, write mails to the list, not to private addresses. Other people
> might want to read this too. Plus I can't see why I'm on CC.
>
> Simon
>
>
> Guillaume Fortain wrote:
>>
>> Dear Mister Tölke,
>>
>> Thank you for your comprehensive reply.
>>
>>
>>
>>> The minimum "Maximal Transferable Unit" is 1280 octets. That means that
>>> every IPv6-Device must be capable of receiving a packet of 1280 octets
>>> *or
>>> less*.
>>>
>>> A packet of 300 Byte is smaller than the MTU and as such legal.
>>
>> I perfectly agree and this the way that 6LoWPAN is pursuing :
>>
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4944
>>
>> "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
>>
>> ...
>>
>>  The MTU size for IPv6 packets over IEEE 802.15.4 is 1280 octets.
>> However, a full IPv6 packet does not fit in an IEEE 802.15.4 frame."
>>
>>
>>
>> However, from my point of view, 6LoWPAN is not the way to go, to not
>> say that it is simply no sense, and I give a detailed overview of my
>> arguments in the IETF  thread entitled "[Lwip] Device Classification"
>> :
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/lwip/current/msg00155.html
>>
>>
>> Especially, to have more informations about this mailing-list, I would
>> greatly appreciate to invite you to a further reading of the following
>> link :
>>
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lwig/charter/
>>
>> "Light-Weight Implementation Guidance (lwig)"
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Guillaume FORTAINE
>> address@hidden
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>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Philipp Tölke
>> <address@hidden>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 11.02.2012 22:36, Guillaume Fortaine wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Could you develop your comment, if possible, please ? Especially, the
>>>> IPv6 default minimum MTU size is 1280 octets.
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
>>>>
>>>> "IPv6 default minimum MTU size of 1280 octets."
>>>
>>>
>>> The minimum "Maximal Transferable Unit" is 1280 octets. That means that
>>> every IPv6-Device must be capable of receiving a packet of 1280 octets
>>> *or
>>> less*.
>>>
>>> A packet of 300 Byte is smaller than the MTU and as such legal.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Philipp Tölke
>
>