On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:36:58 +0100 (CET) Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to restate what you are saying differently so that others might understand > it. Today with have a MTU specified in the IPv6 over foo documents. > We have an MTU option in router advertisements that can be used to > lower that number - which is useful(?) for the last century problem of > bridging Ethernet and FDDI together with half-broken fragmenting > bridges - can get the FDDI attached nodes to use 1500. > A minor note, being able to shrink the MTU on a link via a RA is would be very useful for avoiding packet fragmentation / PMTUD if the majority of traffic originating on that link is going to be encapsulated in a tunnel when going off-link eg VPN using ipsec, gre, etc. Regards, Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
