On 06/06/2013 06:20 PM, Nalini Elkins wrote: > So, if we are talking about the MTU of the local egress interface, then > since, I believe, the minimum MTU size for IPv6 is 1,280, then all > devices should be prepared to examine up to 1,280 bytes to get the L4 > header?
In theory, yes. In practice, it wouldn't make much sense, probably (most of the packet containing overhead?). Cheers, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------