Re: [Pals] L2TP sequencing: Commonly disabled for IP data? Or always?

Derek Fawcus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.int,gmane.ietf.pwe3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 09:39:34AM +0100, Bob Briscoe wrote:
> 
> My attempt to generalize this UK-specific knowledge: No-one is going to 
> add sequencing without a reason, and the only possible reason mentioned 
> so far would be stateful compression, which these days would just slow 
> things down more than the bandwidth saved.

I also mentioned PWE fragmentation - rfc4623 - it depends upon the sequence
numbers as a fragment identifier.  So depending upon how it is implemented,
it may implicitly turn on sequencing, without the user knowing.

So the related question then becomes, where is that fragmentation support
being used - if anywhere?

DF
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