WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

Wed Mar 6 02:27:44 UTC 2019

On 3/3/19 16:57, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On 2019-03-03 20:13, Mark Tinka wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/Mar/19 18:05, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>>
>>> IPv6 requires a minimum MTU of 1280.
>>>
>>> If you cannot transport it, then the transport (the tunnel in this case) needs to handle the fragmentation of packets of 1280 down to whatever does fit in the tunnel.
>>
>> As you know, IPv6 does not support fragmentation in transit. So that's
>> not an option.
> 
> The transport (tunnel) CAN support that kind of fragmentation.

Still, that's certainly not panacea. See:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7872

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