[v6ops] new draft: draft-v6ops-jaeggli-pmtud-ecmp-problemv6op6

Ray Hunter <v6ops@globis.net> Tue, 18 February 2014 07:57 UTC

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Subject: [v6ops] new draft: draft-v6ops-jaeggli-pmtud-ecmp-problemv6op6
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> From: <fred at cisco.com>
> To: v6ops at ietf.org
> Cc: draft-v6ops-jaeggli-pmtud-ecmp-problem at tools.ietf.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 05:45:16 -0800 (PST)
> A new draft has been posted, at 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-v6ops-jaeggli-pmtud-ecmp-problem. 
> Please take a look at it and comment.

I have read this draft.

Isn't the obvious brute force mitigation to clamp all of your DC to IPv6 
minimum MTU?

And isn't it yet another hint that PMTUD really needs to be incorporated 
into the transport layer [if we needed another]?

e.g. by referencing Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (PLPMTUD) 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4821

That should also be handled correctly by the load balancers, or not?

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Regards,
RayH