[40842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Thu Aug 23 12:27:54 2001
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:25:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: Antony Antony <antony@phenome.org>
Cc: <jtk@aharp.is-net.depaul.edu>, Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Antony Antony wrote:
> 3Com Vortex/Boomerang 10/100 Mb/s claims to support
> FIDDI size packets 4.5K.
They do.
> 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.
What? That is incorrect! Any IPv6 host which can sent over the minimum MTU
*MUST* support Path MTU Discovery. It can get away without it if it always
uses the minimum MTU, which it will tell the other end about directly,
thus no issue.
