[6bone] Problems with big packets!?

[Michael Stapleton]

> modern network is its ability to switch between different types of
> physical network. A packet coming down the wire over ATM may be 4500
> bytes. By your methodology when switched to an ethernet connection an
> icmp packet would be returned telling the sender to adjust the packet
> size it's sending. This is why we have the ability to fragment packets.
> 
 It is my understanding that IPv6 routers do not fragment, mtu path 
discovery by the clients is supposed to determine the optimum size.


Michael Stapleton