@techreport{templin-inetmtu-06, number = {draft-templin-inetmtu-06}, 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/06/}, author = {Fred Templin}, title = {{Simple Protocol for Robust IP/*/IP Tunnel Endpoint MTU Determination (sprite-mtu)}}, pagetotal = 20, year = 2007, month = nov, day = 16, abstract = {The nominal Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of today's Internet has become 1500 bytes, but IP/*/IP tunneling mechanisms impose an encapsulation overhead that can reduce the effective path MTU to smaller values. Additionally, existing tunneling mechanisms are limited in their ability to support larger MTUs. This document specifies a simple protocol for robust IP/*/IP tunnel endpoint MTU determination (sprite-mtu).}, }