[157565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP tunnel MTU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Durack)
Mon Oct 29 16:06:42 2012
In-Reply-To: <A13BFB4A-BF99-43CB-84C8-265EB3BD090F@puck.nether.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:06:29 -0400
From: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
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> On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
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>> Templin, Fred L wrote:
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>>> Yes; I was aware of this. But, what I want to get to is
>>> setting the tunnel MTU to infinity.
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>> Essentially, its time the network matured to the point where inter-networking actually works (again), seamlessly.
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>> I agree.
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> Certainly fixing all the buggy host stacks, firewall and compliance devices to realize that ICMP isn't bad won't be hard.
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> - Jared
Wait till you get started on "fixing" the "security" consultants.
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Tim:>
