On one point...
On 29/06/2013 10:44, Templin, Fred L wrote: ... >> and (b) accepting that strapping the MTU at 1280 is >> a reasonable short term policy. If (a) progressively pervades >> the installed base then (b) can be dropped as the years go by. > > Once a link sets a 1280 MTU, how will it know that it is now > safe to increase the MTU? And, once set, how can we expect > operators to go back and re-set in the future. IMHO, strapping > the MTU to 1280 everywhere now would become ossified long into > the future. It would certainly take years, but I think the end result would be implementors raising the default to the real link MTU, one stack at a time. I don't think you find many IPv4 stacks today with the MTU set low by default. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------