IPv6 day and tunnels

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Tue Jun 5 16:43:09 UTC 2012


Templin, Fred L wrote:

>> The proper solution is to have a field in IPv7 header to
>> measure PMTU. It can be a 8 bit field, if fragment granularity
>> is 256B.

> We tried that for IPv4 and it didn't work very well [RFC1063].

IP option is a bad idea, which is partly why IPv6 sucks.

						Masataka Ohta




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