Along with Iljitsch's draft, please also consider taking on sprite-mtu as a work item (or suggest a specific wg):
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-templin-inetmtu-05.txt Thanks - Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 8:01 AM > To: Internet Area > Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-van-beijnum-multi-mtu-01.txt > > Is int-area interested in taking this on as work? > > If not, other suggestions about what to do with it? > > Iljitsch > > > On 30 aug 2007, at 0:13, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've updated my multi-mtu draft: > > > > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi-mtu-01.txt > > > > Other than some minor text issues that caught my eye I > didn't change > > the discussion about the larger packet downsides and CRC issues. > > > > The router advertisement is now much simpler and contains a > priority > > and three MTUs: for 1000, 100/unknown-speed and 10 Mbps. > However, I > > do introduce two new flags: one that suggests that nodes are > > "conservative" in probing neighbor MTUs (I'm not 100% convinced > > about this one) and one that tells hosts do skip the > probing so it's > > possible to have a subnet with both nodes that support all of this > > and ones that are simply configured with a non-standard MTU, i.e., > > interoperate with current jumbo frame deployments. > > > > The switch message is gone and there is more discussion about > > probing. If anyone has additional jumbo frame sizes seen in the > > wild, please let me know. Probing is now done using neighbor > > discovery with IPv6 but that requires breaking RFC 2461 under some > > circumstances. For IPv4 it's done with jumbo ARP. The text > is fairly > > rough and I didn't spell check (takes forever on texts like > this) so > > don't mind the typos. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Int-area mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area > > > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > [email protected] > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area > _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
