On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:40 -0600, Mark Butler wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > Again from RFC 791:
> >
> >>
> >> Every internet destination must be able to receive a datagram of 576
> >> octets either in one piece or in fragments to be reassembled.
> >
> >
> > Hence the minimum IPv4 MTU
Mark Butler wrote:
Rick Jones wrote:
Again from RFC 791:
Every internet destination must be able to receive a datagram of 576
octets either in one piece or in fragments to be reassembled.
Hence the minimum IPv4 MTU of 68 bytes.
Makes sense to me. Does a similar argument apply
Rick Jones wrote:
Again from RFC 791:
Every internet destination must be able to receive a datagram of 576
octets either in one piece or in fragments to be reassembled.
Hence the minimum IPv4 MTU of 68 bytes.
Makes sense to me. Does a similar argument apply the IPv6 "minimum" MT
Can anyone explain the magical 552 ip_rt_min_pmtu?
I've seen fielded equipment that was setting mtu to 512
and causing linux to set the mtu on the route to 552 thus
causing fragments. Why can't we honor the 512 mtu?
I suspect it is a long-standing bug based misunderstanding about IP
minimum M
