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RE: MTU mismatch on one link

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vinciguerra)
Fri Aug 31 09:52:50 2012

From: Paul Vinciguerra <pvinci@VinciConsulting.com>
To: Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:52:09 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5040BC58.7060808@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

You need to raise your MTU above that on the other side and do a ping size =
sweep.  Unlike at Layer-3 when you can use set a DF bit and get back an ICM=
P error, at Layer-2 when you exceed the far side's MTU, the packets are sil=
ently dropped.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Taylor [mailto:tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 9:30 AM
To: NANOG list
Subject: MTU mismatch on one link

Has anyone run into a situation where the MTU at one end of a link was conf=
igured differently from the MTU at the other end? How did you catch it?

In general, do you see any need for a debugging tool to be standardized to =
find such mismatches?

Tom Taylor



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