Re: "RFC 2461bis" issue: MTU handling

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

> I'm afraid I'm not bought into this one as being necessary (yet). We know
> from our physical/logical point of attachment what the largest possible
> MTU for the attached L2 media is - this is a given.

That isn't true for Ethernet. A node attaching to an Ethernet has
no (standard) way to tell whether the switch it connects to supports 
jumboframes or not.

  Erik


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