RFC 7690 on Close Encounters of the ICMP Type 2 Kind (Near Misses with ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (PTB))
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
RFC 7690
Title: Close Encounters of the ICMP Type 2 Kind
(Near Misses with ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (PTB))
Author: M. Byerly,
M. Hite,
J. Jaeggli
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2016
Mailbox: suckawha@gmail.com,
mhite@hotmail.com,
joelja@gmail.com
Pages: 9
Characters: 19061
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-v6ops-pmtud-ecmp-problem-06.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7690
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7690
This document calls attention to the problem of delivering ICMPv6
type 2 "Packet Too Big" (PTB) messages to the intended destination
(typically the server) in ECMP load-balanced or anycast network
architectures. It discusses operational mitigations that can be
employed to address this class of failures.
This document is a product of the IPv6 Operations Working Group of the IETF.
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