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Re: IPv6 day and tunnels


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:33:01 +0900

Joe Maimon wrote:

pMTU has been broken in IPv4 since the early days.

It is still broken. It is also broken in IPv6. It will likely
still be broken for the forseeable future. This is

Relying on ICMP exception messages was always wrong for normal network operation.

Agreed.

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.

                                                Masataka Ohta


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