[157592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP tunnel MTU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Tue Oct 30 06:02:52 2012
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:01:50 -0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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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.
>
> Wait till you get started on "fixing" the "security" consultants.
Ack. I've yet to come across a *device* that doesn't deal properly with "packet too big". Lots (and lots and lots) of "security" people, one or two applications, but no devices.
Regards,
Tim.
