On 3/2/2015 1:17 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> Hi Joe,
...
>>> The GRE folks are saying that it is OK for the tunnel ingress to send PTB
>>> with size less than 1280.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're getting at.
> 
> I'm getting at what they wrote. Nowhere else (except for IPv6/IPv4 
> translators)
> does it say that it is OK to send a PTB with size smaller than 1280.

And if that's what it DOES, then that's what it does.

>> Either they're saying that this is already what's deployed or they're
>> saying it's something new.
> 
> If it is already deployed, then what happens if it is ever invoked? The
> document does not say. 

Then it should.

The behavior shouldn't be reasoned-out.

...
> If the intent is to document what's already deployed, then it is only
> documenting one half of the behavior. The other half is what happens
> *after* a PTB with size smaller than 1280 is sent. On this point, the
> document is silent.

Agreed.

Joe

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