[153362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 day and tunnels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Tue Jun 5 13:41:19 2012
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:43:09 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: "Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1829B60731D1740BB7A0626B4FAF0A65D374A86E0@XCH-NW-01V.nw.nos.boeing.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Templin, Fred L wrote:
>> The proper solution is to have a field in IPv7 header to
>> measure PMTU. It can be a 8 bit field, if fragment granularity
>> is 256B.
> We tried that for IPv4 and it didn't work very well [RFC1063].
IP option is a bad idea, which is partly why IPv6 sucks.
Masataka Ohta
