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Re: [Isis-wg] [rbridge] Why is MTU discovery important?

> 
> There are multiple issues here, one of which is that the IS-IS MTU and
> the data MTU are (quite unfortunately) different by a constant factor
> on Ethernet alone, due to encapsulation changes in the -10 draft.
> Things would be much simpler indeed (both to document and to
> implement) if it were reverted back.  :-<
> 
Treating IS-IS PDUs the same as data PDUs as far as L2 encapsulation
would be a good thing.

Is there some compelling reason NOT to do this?

   Les