Re: End System PMTUD behavior question

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas Peterson
Hi Jeffrey, Here is a link to the list of all of the different hosts that we have performed this testing on: http://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ipv6/equipment.php Currently we use the ping application to test PTMUD, however, we would be interested in performing addition tests using v

RE: End System PMTUD behavior question

2009-01-23 Thread Dunn, Jeffrey H.
Tom, Many thanks for the information. Could you tell me the OS variants on the hosts and router? Also, do you have any tests involving applications? I will send you an off-line e-mail to discuss possible additional testing. Best Regards,   Jeffrey Dunn Info Systems Eng., Lead MITRE Corpora

RE: End System PMTUD behavior question

2009-01-23 Thread Dunn, Jeffrey H.
Pekka, Good point. We use Wireshark to capture the send/receive sequence on the host. In addition, we reboot the machine between tests to ensure the PMTU cache is cleared, since we have show that, once learned, the host will immediately send fragmented ICMPv6 echo requests within the PMTU size

RE: End System PMTUD behavior question

2009-01-23 Thread Dunn, Jeffrey H.
Mark, Fair enough, it appears the short answer to which implementation you know of is BIND (I assume 9.x). With respect to IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU, I thought the value for this was 1280. If so, this simply circumvents PMTUD and uses the IPv6 minimum MTU. Best Regards,   Jeffrey Dunn Info Systems E