[157570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP tunnel MTU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Oct 29 16:50:27 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <508EEA86.2020007@ttec.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:49:19 -0400
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 29, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
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> Jared Mauch 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
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> ICMP is just not the way it is ever going to work.
I wish you luck in getting your host IP stacks to work properly without =
ICMP, especially as you deploy IPv6.
- Jared=
