On 01/04/2012 07:06 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
>> I see no reason to expect that PMTUD will be more reliable for
>> IPv6 than for IPv4.
> 
> I think a lot is now hinging on the assumption that
> PMTUD for IPv6 works. Unlike the situation for IPv4,
> I see no reason to expect that PMTUD for IPv6 will
> be unreliable.

It has been found to break, already -- as a result of firewalls
filtering ICMPv6 messages, are some intermediate systems with
inappropriate rate limiting for all ICMPv6 traffic.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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