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Re: IPv6 day and tunnels


From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:05:40 -0400



Joe Maimon wrote:

Looks like a tunnel mtu issue. I have not as of yet traced the
definitive culprit, who is (not) sending ICMP too big, who is (not)
receiving them, etc.


The culprit is the v6 tunnel, which wanders into v4 ipsec/gre tunnels, which means the best fix is ipv6 mtu 1280 on the tunnels, and possibly on the hosts. PMTUD works fine, just comes up with the wrong answer.

1280, the new 1500.


Joe


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