Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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* is faster for local transfers (gone are MTU/MRU & fragmentation issues)
How does IPv6 do that - isn't MTU dependent on the ethernet packet size and router support for the same?
When was the last time you saw anything that didn't support 1500 byte MTU?
This morning :-) I have an IPv4 setup which uses IPIP tunnels on the back of LVS, and those tunnels reduce my MTU to 1440.
Still, how does IPv6 avoid MTU/MRU & fragmentation issues? PMTU is surely still required.
...But isn't fragmentation a good thing? And isn't it good to be able to specify how much fragmentation to allow? How, otherwise, does one avoid a 50MB file transfer, for instance, locking up a 54Mbps wifi network for 10 seconds? Is provision made for such situations? If so, how does it differ from MTU? Or does it defer all packet-splitting to the lower levels? Are there any bottom-level protocols that don't split transfers into packets? totally ignorant of ipv6, and not very knowledgable about _any_ networking, John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org