IPv6 MTUs smaller than 1280 bytes?

Marco Hogewoning marcoh at marcoh.net
Sun Sep 12 12:44:05 CEST 2010


On 12 sep 2010, at 07:51, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> 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?


Is it really the MTU or do they report payload ?

MarcoH



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