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Title : IPv6 Extensions for Multi-MTU Subnets
Author(s) : I. van Beijnum
Filename : draft-van-beijnum-multi-mtu-00.txt
Pages : 16
Date : 2007-7-3
In the early days of the internet, many different link types with many
different maximum packet sizes were in use. For point-to-point or
point-to-multipoint links, there are still some other link types (PPP,
ATM, Packet over SONET), but shared subnets are almost exclusively
implemented as ethernets. Even though the relevant standards madate a
1500 byte maximum packet size for ethernet, more and more ethernet
equipment is capable of handling packets bigger than 1500 bytes.
However, since this capability isn't standardized, it's seldom used
today, despite the potential performance benefits of using larger
packets. This document specifies a mechanism to negotiate per-neighbor
maximum packet sizes so that nodes on a shared subnet may use the
maximum mutually supported packet size between them without being
limited by nodes with smaller maximum sizes on the same subnet.
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