{"draft":"draft-ietf-v6ops-pmtud-ecmp-problem-06","doc_id":"RFC7690","title":"Close Encounters of the ICMP Type 2 Kind (Near Misses with ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (PTB))","authors":["M. Byerly","M. Hite","J. Jaeggli"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"9","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IPv6 Operations","abstract":"This document calls attention to the problem of delivering ICMPv6\r\ntype 2 \"Packet Too Big\" (PTB) messages to the intended destination\r\n(typically the server) in ECMP load-balanced or anycast network\r\narchitectures.  It discusses operational mitigations that can be\r\nemployed to address this class of failures.","pub_date":"January 2016","keywords":["IPv6","ICMP6","ICMPv6 type 2 PTB"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7690","errata_url":null}