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Re: IPv6 day and tunnels


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:41:04 +0900

Templin, Fred L wrote:

Infinity? You can't carry 65516B in an IPv4 packet.

   2) For tunnels over IPv6, let infinity equal (2^32 - 1)

You can't carry a 65516B IPv6 packet in an IPv4 packet.

Instead, see the last two lines in second last slide of:

    http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/file/0018/38214/pathMTU.pdf

It is a common condition.

Are you interested in only supporting tinygrams? IMHO,
go big or go home!

Bigger packets makes it rather circuit switching than packet
switching. The way to lose.

Faster is the way to go.

                                                Masataka Ohta


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