In a message written on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:03:35PM -0800, William Carrel wrote:
> RFC 879 (http://www.rfc.net/rfc879.html) would tend to disagree...
>
> (10) Gateways must be prepared to fragment datagrams to fit into the
> packets of the next network, even if it smaller than 576 octets.
Hmm, I'd swear there was a defined minimum, I may have the wrong one.
For reference, it appears Cisco IOS based devices won't allow MTU
smaller than 128 to be configured. I have no idea if that's based
on some standard.
It seems like there should be a minimum global standard.
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