On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:08:18AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> > I have a small doubt regarding fragmentation in IPv6.
> >In Ipv6, even header can be fragmented.
> >(with exception that fixed part of header should not be fragmented).
> >..................
> >If a packet's header is fragmented, a new packet header is added to each
> >fragment.But, once agin this new packet header should be fragmented..And
> >this goes on recursively...
>
> packet fragmentation occurs only once, at the originating node.
> so there's no need to worry about the above scenario.
Also note that the minimum MTU for IPv6 is 1280 bytes.
Stig
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