> On Feb 14, 2017, at 10:33 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> *If*  you care about packet loss, then your only option is to probe the path 
>> with with
>> synthetic data that exactly mimics the live data, or not to probe at all and 
>> live
>> with the 1280. As I said 1280 is pretty close to 1496 which is all most 
>> networks
>> will give you in practice.
> 
> Yes, but sending at 1280 does not work for IP tunnels. The whole purpose of 
> the minimum MTU was to give space for tunnel headers (1500-1280).

I'm confused by that statement. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7676#section-3.2 
indicates that a GRE tunnel on IPv6 and carrying an IPv6 payload works with a 
PMTU of 1280, and AFAIK it is among the larger tunnel headers. What tunnels 
does a PMTU of 1280 not work for?
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