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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