Test your connectivity for World IPv6 Day

Rémi Després remi.despres at free.fr
Tue Jun 7 12:30:08 CEST 2011


Le 6 juin 2011 à 21:41, Daniel Roesen a écrit :

> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:58:43PM +0200, Rémi Després wrote:
>> Unless there are good reasons to know that a longer PMTU applies to all
>> their connections, all servers SHOULD send IPv6 packets to off-link
>> destinations with 1280 octets as default PMTU.
> 
> So you advocate making 1280 effectively the maximum MTU, not the minimum?

The "default" MTU, not the "maximum".

If some PMTUD permits to detect that a larger PMTU is possible on a specific path, it can then be used.
Also, on-link connections can use the link MTU.
Regards,
RD
  
> 
> I'm with Fred here. Fix broken paths, not work around the problems.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 
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