Re: IPv6 day and tunnels

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

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