[Gllug] OT: Network connection for home to cloud backup

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On 18 Sep 2010, James Courtier-Dutton said:
> You can have very large packets in AAL5, something over 60000 bytes,
> so one can, if the ISP permits, even have 1500 MTU over IPSEC without
> having to fragment,

Quite so.

> It also means it is ready for jumbo packets that are found in IPv6.

Well, jumbo packets are found in IPv4 as well, but they're not as common
(except on GbE and espeically 10GbE links, where you have no choice but
to go jumbo).

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