[153786] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 day and tunnels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Templin, Fred L)
Tue Jun 12 17:27:15 2012
From: "Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:26:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: <4FD7B093.3010808@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Masataka Ohta [mailto:mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:12 PM
> To: Templin, Fred L
> Cc: Owen DeLong; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IPv6 day and tunnels
>=20
> Templin, Fred L wrote:
>=20
> >> As I already said, 9KB is fine for me.
> >
> > Then you will agree that accommodation of MTU diversity
> > is a MUST (my point).
>=20
> Not necessarily, as IPv4 can take care of itself and IPv6
> is hopeless.
IPv4 can take care of it how - with broken PMTUD or
with broken fragmentation/reassembly? And, you won't
get any argument from me that IPv6 has been stuck
for years for good reasons - but MTU failures can
soon be taken off the list.
Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com=20
