Hi Prasanna, On May 28, 2008, at 8:18 AM, Prasanna Kumar A.S wrote:
> Hi > I just wanted to understand what the primary use of exchanging > MTU in > DD packets and doing MTU-check is? Is it only for the control plane or > is it for the DATA-plane? Control-plane - when sending DD, LSR, and LSU packets, OSPF will attempt to send as many LSA headers or complete LSAs as will fit in a maximum sized packet. > > Why I am getting this doubt is, in draft-ietf-ospf-af-alt-06.txt > doesn't > specify which MTU we should use while exchanging the DD packet for the > ipv4-unicast or ipv4-mutlticast Address-family, is it ipv6-mtu or > ipv4-mtu? We have this clarified in the an update which we post soon. Since this is OSPFv3 which using IPv6 for transport, you always use the IPv6 MTU. Thanks, Acee > > > Regards > Prasanna > _______________________________________________ > OSPF mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
