{"draft":"draft-ietf-trill-mtu-negotiation-08","doc_id":"RFC8249","title":"Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): MTU Negotiation","authors":["M. Zhang","X. Zhang","D. Eastlake 3rd","R. Perlman","S. Chatterjee"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"15","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links","abstract":"The base IETF TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links)\r\nprotocol has a TRILL campus-wide MTU feature, specified in RFCs 6325\r\nand 7177, that assures that link-state changes can be successfully\r\nflooded throughout the campus while being able to take advantage of a\r\ncampus-wide capability to support jumbo packets.  This document\r\nspecifies recommended updates to that MTU feature to take advantage,\r\nfor appropriate link-local packets, of link-local MTUs that exceed\r\nthe TRILL campus MTU.  In addition, it specifies an efficient\r\nalgorithm for local MTU testing.  This document updates RFCs 6325,\r\n7177, and 7780.","pub_date":"September 2017","keywords":[],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC6325","RFC7177","RFC7780"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8249","errata_url":null}