Re: IPv6 fragmentation and IPv6 header parsing

[Brad Chapman <kakadu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr. Kuznetsov,

kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello!
>
> > answer on the question of why it would need on-the-fly fragmenting: 1.) 
> > to make
> > it's life easier when tracking layer-3/4 headers and messing with packet 
> > data (in
> > NAT, but that's not important anymore)
>
> You confirmed yourself that it is meaningless purpose.
  Sorry. Well, enough on NAT.

> > 				 and 2.) in case the idiot on the 
> > other
> > end won't allow an MTU of 1500 ;-)
> >
> This just sounds as full non-sense to me. What is special with 1500?
     I read somewhere that the correct size for an IPv6 link was 1500.
Is this wrong? Is the correct MTU smaller? If it is, then sorry in
advance ;-)

> Alexey
Brad

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