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- RFC 4821, Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery, M. Mathis, J. Heffner, March 2007.
- RFC 1191, Path MTU discovery, Mogul, J. and S. Deering, November 1990.
- RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6, McCann, J., Deering, S., and J. Mogul, August 1996.
- draft-ietf-6man-rfc1981bis-06, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6, Jack McCann, Stephen E. Deering, Jeffrey Mogul, Robert M. Hinden, April 2017
- RFC 2923, TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery, K. Lahey, September 2000
- RFC 3128, Protection Against a Variant of the Tiny Fragment Attack (RFC 1858), Miller, I., June 2001.
- RFC 4459, MTU and Fragmentation Issues with In-the-Network Tunneling, P. Savola, February 2006.
- draft-saum-nvo3-pmtud-over-vxlan-05, PMTUD Over Vxlan, Saumya Dikshit, A Sujeet Nayak, June 2017
- Measuring the Evolution of Transport Protocols in the Internet, A. Medina, M. Allman, and S. Floyd, April 2005.
- PMTU (Path MTU) Discovery - Some servers are unusable for many internet users, an article about problems with Path MTU Discovery and their effects.
- Practical hints from Cisco for working around PMTUD issues, for Windows, Solaris, and other systems
- IP Fragmentation and PMTUD, Cisco White Paper
- draft-ietf-tsvwg-datagram-plpmtud-05, Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for Datagram Transports, Godred Fairhurst, Tom Jones, Michael Tuexen, Irene Ruengeler, October 2018
- draft-spiriyath-ipsecme-dynamic-ipsec-pmtu-01, Packetization Layer Path Maximum Transmission Unit Discovery (PLPMTUD)For IPsec Tunnels, Shibu Piriyath, Umesh Mangla, Nagavenkata Suresh Melam, Ron Bonica, February 2018
draft-troan-6man-pmtu-solution-space-00, Path MTU discovery solution space, Ole Troan, September 2018
Implementations
- for Linux 2.6 - integrated in mainstream kernel as of 2.6.17. However, it is disabled by default (see net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing sysctl)
- for NetBSD
-- HankNussbacher - 2005-07-03
– SimonLeinen - 2006-07-19 - 2018-10-0205