Re: TCP and IPV6_USE_MINMTU

John Leslie <john@jlc.net> Fri, 16 October 2015 20:26 UTC

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:26:20 -0400
From: John Leslie <john@jlc.net>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Subject: Re: TCP and IPV6_USE_MINMTU
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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...

   Perhaps adding a citation to the specific section of a particular
RFC would help?

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John Leslie <john@jlc.net>