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[6bone] Problems with big packets!?
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Michael Stapleton wrote:
> To: Andy Furnell <[email protected]>
> > modern network is its ability to switch between different types of
> > physical network. A packet coming down the wire over ATM may be 4500
> > bytes. By your methodology when switched to an ethernet connection an
> > icmp packet would be returned telling the sender to adjust the packet
> > size it's sending. This is why we have the ability to fragment packets.
> >
> It is my understanding that IPv6 routers do not fragment, mtu path
> discovery by the clients is supposed to determine the optimum size.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1981.txt