[6bone] Problems with big packets!?

[Michel Py]

>> 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".
 
> Andy Furnell wrote:
> 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.

Agree with Andy.

Michel.