IPv6 day and tunnels

Tue Jun 5 22:41:04 UTC 2012

Templin, Fred L wrote:

>> Infinity? You can't carry 65516B in an IPv4 packet.

>    2) For tunnels over IPv6, let infinity equal (2^32 - 1)

You can't carry a 65516B IPv6 packet in an IPv4 packet.

>> Instead, see the last two lines in second last slide of:
>>
>>     http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/file/0018/38214/pathMTU.pdf
>>
>> It is a common condition.
> 
> Are you interested in only supporting tinygrams? IMHO,
> go big or go home!

Bigger packets makes it rather circuit switching than packet
switching. The way to lose.

Faster is the way to go.

						Masataka Ohta