Re: Last Call: 'Maximum Transmission Unit Signalling Extensions for the Label Distribution Protocol' to Proposed Standard

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

Kireeti,

  What about existing implementations?

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Alex
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Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 12:09:33 PM, Kireeti Kompella wrote:
> Hi Adrian,

> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Adrian Farrel wrote:

>>    MTU
>>
>>    This is a 16-bit unsigned integer that represents the MTU in octets
>>    for an LSP or segment of an LSP.
>>
>>
>> Is this unnecessarily limiting? Shouldn't we support MPLS over
>> L2 technologies that support larger than 64k MTUs?

> I'm happy to do so, but I'm not aware of any L2 technology that
> supports MTUs greater than 64K.  But if no one objects, this field can
> be made 32 bits, assuming that that's big enough :-)

> Kireeti.
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