rfc-1063

IP MTU discovery options

J.C. Mogul, C.A. Kent, C. Partridge, K. McCloghrie

date1988-07 streamLegacy statusUNKNOWN pages11 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1063 doi10.17487/RFC1063

A pair of IP options that can be used to learn the minimum MTU of a path through an internet is described, along with its possible uses. This is a proposal for an Experimental protocol.

obsoleted by

rfc-1191 — Path MTU discovery