On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Yes, but how do you do that if you don't know the fragment size?
>>> Right now, you can only guess, and you'll likely try to guess 
>>> conservatively, missing out on the opportunity to reasonably fill the 
>>> packets.
>>
>> Only 6lowpan adaption is here in IETF, the MTU is 127 bytes, isn't it?
>
> That is the physical layer MTU.
>
> The specific combination of MAC layer overheads, adaptation layer overheads, 
> and header compression gains can turn the actual initial fragment size number 
> into anything roughly between 70 and 160 bytes.  Note that this is more than 
> a factor of two.
>

This worth stating in the draft though:)

regards, cz

> Grüße, Carsten
>
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