RFC 4890:Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Mess...
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... Path MTU Discovery and hence is part of the establishment and maintenance of communications. Since routers are not allowed to fragment packets, informing sources of the need to fragment large packets ...
... routers are not allowed to fragment packets, informing sources of the need to fragment large packets is more important than for IPv4 ...



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