IPv6 MTUs smaller than 1280 bytes?

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:09:52PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:49:19AM +0000, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > 	i will admit to truting what my tools tell me, and 
> > 	they report an MTU of 1220.  It appears to be from a
> > 	single vendors kit.
> 
> Is that due to a broken implementation, or due to actual link-layer
> technology that cannot handle more than 1220?

	are these two different?

--bill

> 
> Gert Doering
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