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Re: TCP and IPV6_USE_MINMTU

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Fri, 16 October 2015 20:32 UTC

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From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
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Subject: Re: TCP and IPV6_USE_MINMTU
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In message <20151016202620.GI1442@verdi>, John Leslie writes:
> Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Please see
> > https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-andrews-tcp-and-ipv6-use-minmtu-00.txt
> > 
> > It addresses what should be obviously done but isn't by many
> > implementations.
> 
>    Alas, this draft gives no clue _how_ to check IPV6_USE_MINMTU ...
> (or, for that matter, how to set it).
>
>    One could reasonably guess that s/he should look through RFC3542 to
> find how to check this; but RFC3542 contains no such string. (It does
> contain the string IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU; but I don't feel justified in
> guessing that far astream...

Yes, I typo'd that, repeatedly.
 
>    Perhaps adding a citation to the specific section of a particular
> RFC would help?
> 
> --
> John Leslie <john@jlc.net>
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