[40839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RJ Atkinson)
Thu Aug 23 12:16:59 2001
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:04:36 -0400
To: Antony Antony <antony@phenome.org>
From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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At 11:37 23/08/01, Antony Antony wrote:
>for those who interested in IPv6, Path MTU Discovery is not
>in IPv6 stack. To have end to end jumbo frames in native v6
>we NAPs in the path should support jumbo frames.
More precisely, with IPv6 networks, either:
(1) Path MTU Discovery is ALWAYS enabled and cannot be disabled
XOR
(2) the sending system never sends an IP packet
larger than 1280 bytes.
[Source: RFC-2460, Section 5, Page 24]
Ran
rja@inet.org
