Any reason why MTU of tunnel is hardwired to 1280?
Shadow Hawkins on Saturday, 01 January 2005 16:28:15
Hi,
is there any reason why the MTU of a tunnel is hardwired to 1280?
For client, it's hardwired in the aiccu client. But after I increase the MTU by hand after setup, I found that the server side is also limited to 1280:
15:51:33.429269 2001:6f8:900:*** > 2001:6f8:900:***: icmp6: too big 1280
I see no reason for a hardwired limit. 1460 for server side should be ok, at least modern Linux kernels have already an automagical MTU detection and usually 1452 are used after tunnel setup on a PPP connection.
The reason I'm asking is that I checked the maximum ping6 payload (-s <size>) and found for a 1280 MTU tunnel:
1232: native IPv6 (1280 - 40 - 8)
1190: ESP transport mode AES_128-HMAC_SHA1
1150: ESP tunnel mode AES_128-HMAC_SHA1 (1190 - 40)
Peter
Any reason why MTU of tunnel is hardwired to 1280?
Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:43:14
I saw it once in an RFC somewhere, there IS a technical reason for IPv6 to use 1280 though. Mainly because it is standard (due to the RFC again).
Any reason why MTU of tunnel is hardwired to 1280?
Jeroen Massar on Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:45:06
What is the MTU of a tunnel?:
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All the SixXS POPs use a MTU of 1280. The reason for this is that this is the value that is supported by all operating systems.
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Any reason why MTU of tunnel is hardwired to 1280?
Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 01 July 2005 04:03:36
Still, would not packets be fragmented if a part of the path doesn't support the current MTU?
Is this going to be changed in the future? A small MTU is bad for fast connections.
Any reason why MTU of tunnel is hardwired to 1280?
Jeroen Massar on Friday, 01 July 2005 10:16:17
You could have tried to read the news of April 5th 2005 or actually look around in your userhome...
Any reason why MTU of tunnel is hardwired to 1280?
Shadow Hawkins on Wednesday, 06 July 2005 13:44:02
Oh. My mistake. Honestly I have not been paying to much attention to the news page...
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