@misc{rfc7690, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 7690, howpublished = {RFC 7690}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC7690}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7690}, author = {Matt Byerly and Matt Hite and Joel Jaeggli}, title = {{Close Encounters of the ICMP Type 2 Kind (Near Misses with ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (PTB))}}, pagetotal = 9, year = 2016, month = jan, abstract = {This document calls attention to the problem of delivering ICMPv6 type 2 "Packet Too Big" (PTB) messages to the intended destination (typically the server) in ECMP load-balanced or anycast network architectures. It discusses operational mitigations that can be employed to address this class of failures.}, }