IPv6 TCP transfers are hanging

[cswiger at mac.com (Chuck Swiger)]

Kevin Oberman wrote:
> What I don't understand is how this is happening. tcp.mssdflt is set to
> 1400 bytes and tcp.v6mssdflt is only 1024. If PMTU discovery was
> working, this should not be a problem. If PMTU discovery is not used,
> the MSS defaults should keep the packets small enough to work over the
> tunnel.

Doesn't IPv6 require a minimum MTU of 1280 bytes?  Try setting the IPv6 TCP 
MSS to 1350 or so, bigger than IPv6 code requires, but small enough to fit 
into the ~1400+ byte MTU effectively available when you tunnel the traffic.

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-Chuck