Re: IPv6 MTU discrovery -- how should it work?

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Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
Date
29 Apr 2012 14:47:54
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Re: IPv6 MTU discrovery -- how should it work?
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1311430753.20120429184752@serebryakov.spb.ru

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Hello, Lev.
You wrote 29 2012 ., 18:35:59:

LS> When I connect to external server twice, and run tcpdump in one
LS> session for another one, and then try to use second (sniffed) session
LS> for bulk transfer, I can clearly see, that server tries to send IPv6
LS> packets with size 1420 to my local network many times and doesn't
LS> get any answer, so it is MTU problem for sure, but how it could be fixed?
But

server# ping6 -D -s 1420 <host-after-tunnel-with-mtu-1280>

Works!

I don't understand, what happens here :(

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>


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