draft-saum-nvo3-mtu-propagation-over-evpn-overlays
MTU propagation over EVPN Overlays
Path MTU Discovery between end-host-devices/Virtual-Machines/servers/
workloads connected over an EVPN-Overlay Network in
Datacenter/Campus/enterprise deployment, is a problem, yet to be
resolved in the standards forums. It needs a converged solution to
ensure optimal usage of network and computational resources of the
networking elements, including underlay routers/switches,
constituting the overlay network. This documents takes leads from
the guidelines presented in [RFC4459].
The overlay connectivity can pan across various sites (geographically
seperated or collocated) for realizing a Datacenter Interconnect or
intersite VPNs between campus sites (buildings, branch offices etc).
This literature intends to solve problem of icmp error propagation
from an underlay routing/switching device to an end-host (hooked to
EVPN overlay), thus facilitating "accurate MTU" learnings.
This document also leverages the icmp multipart message extension,
mentioned in [RFC4884] to carry the original packet in the icmp PDU.