[c-nsp] Experiences with l2tpv3/xconnect?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:26:32AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Just out of morbid curiousity - so will the router terminating L2TPv3 actually
> fragment and reassemble L2TPv3 frames as needed, or is it hoping another
> upstream router will fragment as needed?

Well, as always this depends on "who is hitting the MTU wall" - if the
encapsulating router already knows "can't send this packet", it will 
fragment itself, otherwise, a router on the path needs to do so.

Reassembly is always done on the receiving L2TPv3 router, and is expensive.

gert
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