@techreport{templin-inetmtu-lite-00, number = {draft-templin-inetmtu-lite-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-inetmtu-lite/00/}, author = {Fred Templin}, title = {{Minimal Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IP/*/IPv4 Tunnels}}, pagetotal = 16, year = 2007, month = sep, day = 26, abstract = {The nominal Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of the Internet has become 1500 bytes, but existing IP/*/IPv4 tunneling mechanisms impose an encapsulation overhead that can reduce the effective path MTU to smaller values. Additionally, existing IP/*/IPv4 tunneling mechanisms are limited in their ability to discover and utilize larger MTUs. This document specifies minimal mechanisms for conveying packets over IP/*/IPv4 tunnels that address these issues.}, }