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Re: [Gen-art] Review of draft-ietf-6man-rfc1981bis-04

2017-02-15 14:42:07
On Feb 14, 2017, at 15:00, Templin, Fred L 
<Fred(_dot_)L(_dot_)Templin(_at_)boeing(_dot_)com> wrote:

Unless there is operational assurance of some size X>1280, however, tunnels 
have to use fragmentation to guarantee that - at a minimum - packets up to 
1280 will get through.

Given the growing prevalence of IPv6 using 6LoWPAN on IEEE 802.15.4, which is 
always MTU=1280 everywhere, c.f. RFC 4944, I think we can forget about ever 
getting that operational assurance in practice.


--james woodyatt <jhw(_at_)google(_dot_)com <mailto:jhw(_at_)google(_dot_)com>>



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