[136152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Tue Feb 1 15:33:51 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D48670E.2040505@otd.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:32:43 +0100
To: Dave Israel <davei@otd.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1 feb 2011, at 21:03, Dave Israel wrote:
> People want to engineer their networks they way they want to. Let =
them. If their way is stupid, then they'll have the stupidly engineered =
network they wanted.
The problem is that their stupidity impacts ME. If I want to talk to =
Microsoft from behind a < 1500 byte MTU link: too bad, not going to =
happen. They stupidly send packets with DF=3D1 but filter incoming =
packet too big messages.
So I'm all in favor of the IETF blocking stupidity whenever possible.
