RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6

This document describes Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6. It is largely derived from RFC 1191, which describes Path MTU Discovery for IP version 4.…

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Outgoing relationships (5 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Informative reference — RFC 1883: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 905: ISO Transport Protocol specification ISO DP 8073
Informative reference — RFC 1885: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 1057: RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol specification: Version 2

Incoming relationships (44 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4347: Datagram Transport Layer Security
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5415: Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4890: Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5927: ICMP Attacks against TCP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4459: MTU and Fragmentation Issues with In-the-Network Tunneling
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7676: IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7112: Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7588: A Widely Deployed Solution to the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Fragmentation Problem
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6752: Issues with Private IP Addressing in the Internet
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5213: Proxy Mobile IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2463: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2675: IPv6 Jumbograms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6092: Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3542: Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2491: IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6189: ZRTP: Media Path Key Agreement for Unicast Secure RTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2765: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2492: IPv6 over ATM Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6691: TCP Options and Maximum Segment Size (MSS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3366: Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7450: Automatic Multicast Tunneling
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2292: Advanced Sockets API for IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5320: The Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer (SEAL)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6180: Guidelines for Using IPv6 Transition Mechanisms during IPv6 Deployment
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6732: 6to4 Provider Managed Tunnels
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5505: Principles of Internet Host Configuration
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7059: A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7122: Datagram Convergence Layers for the Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol and Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8159: Keyed IPv6 Tunnel
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6556: Testing Eyeball Happiness