Subj : Re: New One
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Nov 19 2020 19:16:00

-=> On 11-17-20 19:13, Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 RM> Indeed!
 RM> Especially IPv6 packet too big messages.
 RM> IPv4 would fragment on the way.
 RM> That is not possible in IPv6 where fragmentation is only allowed on the
 RM> ends of a connection.
 RM> It relies on the ICMP packet too big arriving at the sender, so he can
 RM> resend.

Yeah that makes sense, and even blovking IPv4 ICMP causes strange issues, like
without path MTU discovery, senders won't know to adjust packet size.


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