[6bone] Problems with big packets!?

[Andy Furnell]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:37:54PM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
> 
> 
> Um, What is the problem?
> 
>  You're _NEVER_ going to encounter a 1000 byte packet, let alone a 5000
> byte packet in "the wild".
> 

I disagree,

I regularly see packets of 1000 bytes and above on applications such as
NNTP and FTP. Pinging with large packet sizes is often the best way to
determine faults with various networking media. Although in a tunneled
IPv6 context (especially given the size of the IPv6 header) you're
likely to see some pretty funky things happen when pinging with packets
much larger than 1200 bytes.

A

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Andy Furnell
andy@ipng.org.uk