[161800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question on Ipv6 address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Mar 27 01:02:22 2013
To: "Frank Bulk \(iname.com\)" <frnkblk@iname.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:45:53 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:01:43 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <005c01ce2aa5$f9ed6c20$edc84460$@iname.com>, "Frank Bulk \(iname.com
\)" writes:
> My understanding is that because IPv6 has a minimum MTU of 1280 and
> dial-up maxes out at 576, that special measures must be taken for IPv6
> to work over a dial-up connection.
>
> Please correct me if someone has this working out of the box.
>
> Frank
The defaults depend apon the framing protocol.
PPP defaults to 1500
SLIP defaults to 1006
Mark
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