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
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