[153244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 day and tunnels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Maslak)
Sun Jun 3 22:34:19 2012
In-Reply-To: <4FCC11B2.2090405@ttec.com>
From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@antelope.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:33:40 -0600
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 3, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
> www.arin.net works and worked for years. www.facebook.com stopped June 1.
>=20
> So IPv6 fixes the fragmentation and MTU issues of IPv4 by how exactly?
It doesn't fix the fragmentation issues. It assumes working PMTU.
For what it's worth, I also use a tunnel without issue to reach www.facebook=
.com via IPv6, with an MTU of 1476 (since it's running over a 1492 byte IPv4=
PPoE tunnel...).
