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[happy] Re: [ietf-wg-happy/draft-happy-eyeballs-v3] Section-10.1 : Why is there a specific IPv6 MTU problem? (Issue #124)

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Thu, 02 July 2026 23:56 UTC

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On 03-Jul-26 11:01, Dan Wing wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2026, at 9:33 AM, Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> On 24/06/2026 09:46, Nidhi Jaju wrote:
>>> nidhijaju left a comment (ietf-wg-happy/draft-happy-eyeballs-v3#124)
>>> Note: This text was added in #120.
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>> I still don't understand the origins or generallity of the statement "Such issues might be specific to IPv6".
>> Maybe I am missing something, so what is it that makes a TCP session over IPv6 fail to recieve packets of the received MSS?
> 
> Spit-balling: Decades of deployed routers with "ip tcp adjust-mss", but without corresponding "ipv6 tcp adjust-mss". Also due to header size differences the two values usually don't match and counting bytes is harder now than decades ago.

And wouldn't variable length extension headers make it potentially even worse?
    Brian

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