RE: [RAM] New LISP draft available ...

["Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin at boeing.com>]

> > Not really, except that the extra header (unknown to the sender)
> > will reduce the MTU and we'd like to avoid that causing 
> fragmentation.
> 
> Understand the issue and there is no reliable solution to it. All  
> tunneling protocols have this problem. But I believe in 
> practice it's  
> not a real issue. Hosts send no larger, typically than 1500 byte  
> packets and routers are now more and more on 9K MTU links.

There is also the size of the reassembly buffer to consider,
i.e., the Maximum Receive Unit (MRU). Nodes are advised to
configure an MRU at least as large as the interface MTU, but
in some cases that may only be 1500bytes.

Fred
fred.l.templin at boeing.com 

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