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Re: MTU of the Internet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Feb 6 14:28:37 1998

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 14:06:37 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802061617.KAA10606@keys.csi.net>; from Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 10:17:03AM -0600

On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 10:17:03AM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> I'm sure we'd all like to see a reference implementation of your
> ideas.  Keep in mind that one of the primary features of PMTUD is that
> it requires no modifications to any hosts or routers, and that it uses
> only one protocol (ICMP) which is required to be implemented on all
> hosts.

But, practically, is _not_, completely, right now; wasn't this the
complaint I heard?

Cheers,
-- jra
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