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Re: The IPv4 Internet MTU



On 12-okt-2007, at 23:36, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:

IPv6 packets larger than 1473 bytes sent by peers are just dropped
when they come back. Annoying to say the least ...

A good way to work around that is by having your router advertise an IPv6 MTU of that size. Your hosts will then automatically reduce their packet sizes and advertise a reduced TCP MSS option.