On 20/08/2014 10:29, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Fernando Gont <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> I must say that I fail to see the need for generating IPv6 atomic
>> fragments 8packets with a frag header, which are not really fragmented).
>> See e.g. what we wrote in
>> <
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation-00
>>> .
> 
> It does seem kind of silly that we say "you must support MTU >= 1280 to run
> IPv6" and then allow PTB packets with an MTU < 1280. Any reason we can't
> simply say that PTB packets < 1280 are invalid?

Because of SIIT, that is equivalent to saying that the minimum IPv4
MTU is now 1260. That might be a discussion worth having, but 576 has
been around for a long time.

   Brian

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