[mhurron]

> "minimum payload size" (whatever that is)

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say he got his terms wrong. The IPv6 RFC states that IPv6 requires a minimum MTU of 1280 bytes. I guess that's what he meant.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt

Packet Size Issues

IPv6 requires that every link in the internet have an MTU of 1280 octets or greater. On any link that cannot convey a 1280-octet packet in one piece, link-specific fragmentation and reassembly must be provided at a layer below IPv6.

[zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC]

Which wouldn't really make me any more confident in the reliability of the whole thing?! Confusing lower-level fragmentation and reassembly with IPv6 fragmentation is not exactly a mistake you'd be likely to make when you understand what that actually means, I would think.

[yeukhon]

Let's not guess and help correct the article, shall we? Documentation, manpage, textbook and programming books can contain errors.

On the flip side, I like to see more people helping critiquing these articles so newbies like me can get the most out of it (though I already took computer network...).

[mhurron]

It would be one you would make as you were learning it, which is honestly what half the blogs that cross here are. It just happens that the neat thing this person learned today was about some networking protocols they use every day.