Re: How to use an IP-header bit for Path MTU discovery.

[Philippe Prindeville <[e-mail]>]

Well, for X.25 (to pick an example, not necessarily my favourite)
one can provide an IP mtu equal to the maximum packet size or
one can use the M-bit to fragment an IP datagram transparently.
For raw HDLC, one doesn't have acknowledgement or sequencing (at
LLC1), so would have to be layered on top.  Of course, with raw
HDLC, one can usually set the MTU arbitrarily large (since this
is typically over private point-to-point lines) so this isn't a
problem...  At least until Frame Relay happens.  Unless you are
referring to LAN technologies (which I feel offer a 'decent' size
of MTU).

-Philip