1.1.d (iii) IPv4 and IPv6 Fragmentation

IPv4 and IPv6 handle fragmentation differently. IPv4 expects routers to do all of the heavy lifting (fragmentation) while IPv6 moves that responsibility to the sender. The biggest issues we have with IPv4 fragmentation is: 1. it’s costly on our weak router CPUs 2. Any firewalls along the path cannot inspect fragments of an IP packet, …