Subject: Re: UDP path MTU discovery

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:19:52 +0200

> If you don't want to hassle with all of that, the app can stick to
> 1280 (or I guess for the extreme/lazy cases turn on fragmentation)..

See the early mails in this thread. This is about apps who can't
limit themselves to 1280, but still don't want full blown PMTU.
[They probably should, but it can be a lot of work]

The MTU would allow to force fragmentation on the sending host
as a workaround similar to IPv4.

-Andi
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