Re: [v6ops] PMTUD issue discussion

"Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com> Fri, 05 September 2014 00:58 UTC

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From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] PMTUD issue discussion
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On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:

> On 09/04/2014 09:24 PM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> What happens when/if such lins employ v6 (whether they really
>>> offer a "virtual" MTU >=1280).. I just don't know.
>> 
>> 802.15.4?
> 
> No. I seem to recall that it was more of a packet radio sort of thing
> (something predating 802.15.4). I could ask some folks if interested
> in more details…

I think you missed my point. We have a case in point today, which is IPv6 in an IPv6 tunnel encapsulation running on a packet network whose MTU is 127 bytes. We call it “6lowpan”, and it runs on IEEE 802.15.4.