Re: Clarify SCTP max packet size.

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:19:47 -0600

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David,

David Laight wrote:                           (Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:19:25)
> 
> Setting the interface mtu to a smaller value is likely to cause
> bigger interworking issues.
> 

RFC 1122: (page 59)

 The MTU of each physical interface MUST be configurable.

If Vendor B cannot configure their interfaces for 1400 then
they are violating the requirements for IP hosts, which, IMHO
is far worse than Vendor A refusing to accept SCTP packets
larger than a certain size.

--brian

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