On 3/Mar/19 21:57, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> The transport (tunnel) CAN support that kind of fragmentation.
>
> (e.g. the tunnel could chop up a 1280 byte packet into two packets and the
> remote then join them together; that is a "ethernet" level thing).
If you have a working example between a Cisco IOS XE device and a
Mikrotik router, I am all ears.
> Real world for IPv6 is: do not try to transport it over a medium that does
> not support packets of at least 1280 bytes.
Note I am not recommending this as a best practice. I believe the
subscribers on this list are clued enough to discern that for
themselves. But in the interest of posterity, let me make that explicit.
> Maybe you should ask this "FTTH" provider to deliver a decent MTU size? (next
> to native IPv6, something something, 20+ years old protocol...)
:-), you're a funny guy... maybe my provider and I will just get off the
Internet altogether.
Mark.
