Subject: Re: ip reassembly time exceeded?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/31/1997 02:56:00
I wrote:

>jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone) writes;
>>However,  I _think_ an 576-byte MTU may be required for IPv6,
>>since 576-byte MTUs are allowed for multicast traffic.

>Last I looked they were going to require a 1500 byte MTU.

But, in fact, Jonathan was correct.  IPv6 requires a 576 byte MTU.  I
confused that with the requirement that hosts must be able to
reassemble at least 1500 byte large IP packets.

>Besides, a sending host just doesn't send
>fragments in any version of IP, unless it's IP implementation is
>severly broken.  Routers fragment IP packets.

And I completely forgot UDP as Kevin Lahey pointed out.

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Christoph Badura	bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

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