[15037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Feb 5 17:42:05 1998
To: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
cc: marcs@znep.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 1998 15:47:04 CST."
<199802052147.PAA03533@charon.milepost.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:28:54 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Phil Howard writes:
> I agree MTU needs to be flexible. But in a protocol where MTU discovery
> is based on ICMP, and where filters are often implemented for ICMP without
> detailing, then I think DF is just as uncivilized as other bad behaviour.
The great thing about the internet is that almost anyone can pretend
to understand it.
Perry
