The author of the RFC has clarified (personal communication,
posted with permission) that the intention was never to prohibit
jumbo frames, but rather:
It is only supposed to mean that Router Advertisements cannot
increase the MTU above whatever it was otherwise believed to be,
and that in t
Ryota Hirose wrote:
> Hi IPv6 hackers,
>
> Recent GbE NICs or GbE switches support Jumbo Frames, but RFC2464
> provides that the maximum MTU of an Ethernet is 1500. So we cannot
> use the Jumbo Frames for IPv6.
As I read it, RFC2464 says that the maximum *default* MTU is 1500,
and, anything larg
