> However, off the top of my head I can think of two UDP applications, > one that absolutely uses large packets (NFS over UDP), and another > that could in the future (DNS with EDNS0 in the presence of IPv6 > roots and/or DNSSEC) that would fail badly by simply setting the MTU > to "jumbo" and letting RFC 4821 take care of the difference.
Add also routing protocols that send large Hellos, LSAs, etc. over tunnels where neighbors may be separated by many sub-IP layer hops... Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
