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Title : Generic Tunnel MTU Determination
Author(s) : Fred L. Templin
Filename : draft-generic-v6ops-tunmtu-01.txt
Pages : 8
Date : 2012-05-24
The tunnel MTU for popular IP-in-IP tunneling mechanisms is currently
recommended to be set to 1500 (or less) minus the length of the
encapsulation headers when static MTU determination is used. This is
to avoid IP fragmentation within the tunnel, but requires the tunnel
ingress to either fragment any IP packet larger than the MTU or drop
the packet and return an ICMP Packet Too Big (PTB) message. Concerns
for operational issues with both IPv4 and IPv6 Path MTU Discovery
point to the possibility of MTU-related black holes when a packet is
dropped due to an MTU restriction. Fortunately, the "Internet cell
size" is 1500 bytes, i.e., the minimum MTU configured by the vast
majority of links in the Internet. We also note that these same
considerations apply to the encapsulation of any combination of IP-
within-IP protocol versions. This document therefore presents a
method to boost the tunnel MTU to larger values.
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