Re: [v6ops] PMTUD issue discussion

Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> Thu, 04 September 2014 22:10 UTC

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> On Sep 2, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Tom Perrine <tperrine@scea.com> wrote:
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> What MTUs are actually (commonly) seen in the wild?
> 
> I can only think of less than a dozen that I would expect to see, assuming that the actual MTU is based solely on the underlying network technology.
> 
> Is planning and assuming that we'll see each and every possible MTU actually necessary?
> 
> I agree that we wouldn't want to artificially limit MTUs to only a few common ones, I mean look how /64s became embedded in silicon...
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