Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...)

Thu Aug 23 16:25:27 UTC 2001

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Antony Antony wrote:

> 3Com Vortex/Boomerang 10/100 Mb/s claims to support
> FIDDI size packets 4.5K.

They do.

> for those who interested in IPv6,  Path MTU Discovery is not in IPv6 stack.
> To have end to end  jumbo frames in native v6 we  NAPs in the path
> should support jumbo frames.

What? That is incorrect! Any IPv6 host which can sent over the minimum MTU
*MUST* support Path MTU Discovery. It can get away without it if it always
uses the minimum MTU, which it will tell the other end about directly,
thus no issue.