Thomas, > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Narten [mailto:nar...@us.ibm.com] > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:38 AM > To: Templin, Fred L > Cc: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: RFC2460 violation of RFC1122 > > > By assuming an EMTU_R of greater than 576 bytes, RFC2460 > > is therefore in violation of RFC1122, which could lead to > > communication failures. How do we reconcile this? > > How many TCP/IP stacks exist today that cannot connect to an Ethernet, > and thus, handle 1500 byte datagrams? > > I suspsect that platforms limited to accepting IP datagrams of max > size 576 are gettign to be an extreme edge case these days.
Others might disagree, but I don't mind assuming 1500. But then, the size 1280 is in no way significant to IPv4 hosts so why stop there? Why not go all the way and say that IPv4 hosts are expected to reassemble at least 1500 the same as for IPv6 hosts? Thanks - Fred fred.l.temp...@boeing.com > Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
