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Re: 2.0.21: TCP hangs solved by disabling Path MTU Discovery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Sep 30 05:05:26 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: 29 Sep 1996 19:51:28 +0100
In article <19960926155031.12641.qmail@tad.micro.umn.edu>,
<rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu> wrote:
>Maybe a better option would be to let the connection run with MTU
>576, after a short delay, until Path MTU can complete? [Or do I
>completely misunderstand the problem here?]
You can't do path mtu discovery except by looking at the bounces to find
what size works. Thats on reason a web site with a lot of small files
and users, that doesnt carry other big files and the like often works
faster with mtu discovery off
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