Re: [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draft-ietf-6lowpan-format-12.txt
Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 20 March 2007 10:54 UTC
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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Subject: Re: [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draft-ietf-6lowpan-format-12.txt
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:54:32 +0100
To: Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi>
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On Mar 20 2007, at 11:50, Markku Savela wrote: > >> From: Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi> > >> Thus, this MTU (and resulting IPv6 packet size) is whatever the >> 6lowpan decides to specify. > > Occurs to me, as 6lowpan does it's own internal fragmentation anyway, > it could actually advertise very large MTU (like 4-16Kb) to avoid IPv6 > header overhead in bulk transfers. Well... > Whether sensible, depends how > likely the packet loss is on the link. Exactly, and with a very small L2 MTU and losses exacerbated by possible multi-hop L2 paths, you really want L4/L7 reliability for larger ADUs. Gruesse, Carsten _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list 6lowpan@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
- [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draft-ie… gabriel montenegro
- Re: [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draf… Carsten Bormann
- Re: [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draf… Markku Savela
- Re: [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draf… Markku Savela
- Re: [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draf… Carsten Bormann
- Re: [6lowpan] tentative rev 12 format draft: draf… Carsten Bormann