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Re: The IPv4 Internet MTU



On 2007-10-12 09:13, Templin, Fred L wrote:
Of course, UDP echo would work, but I am a bit concerned as to its applicability to potentially short-lived UDP flows, as can happen with TEREDO... ?

Short UDP flows should still be OK, but may need to
institute pacing until coordination with the TFE can
be done. If the flow is so short-lived that there is
no time to perform the coordination, then it is simply
"out of sight - out of mind" - right?

A sender could always cache the most recently discovered PMTU
to a given destination. That would be enough for repeated
short UDP flows to the same destination. As for isolated
short UDP flows, they just need to use the Internet minimum
MTU (576 or 1280) - there's no other possible solution.

   Brian