Re: IPv6 interface problem

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <3D646C49.3020500@ihug.co.nz> you wrote:
> > hosts have to do path-MTU discovery and fragment their packets to the 
> > correct size before they are sent.  one host is probably doing it 
> > correctly while the other one isn't.
> 
> well, PMTU Discovery is for TCP only. ICMP PAckets are simply fragmented.

Umm.. PMTUD is for everything, AFAICS.  It's mostly seen with UDP though
(TCP less so).

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