[20590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Maybe I'm misreading this but...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Fri Oct 16 21:49:40 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@traveller.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: 17 Oct 1998 01:37:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: I Am Not An Isp's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:52:37 -0700"
In article <199810162153.RAA25346@merit.edu>,
I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
> This is getting way out of hand. The original question was "Does this
> break PMTU" (paraphrased), to which the answer is "NO". There may or may
> not be external factors which, in combination with RFC1918 space, breaks
> PMTU. But the answer to the original question is still "no".
It isn't. Those "external factors" are very common, common enough
that they have to be considered in any analysis of whether to use RFC
1918 space or not on today's Internet.
A similar question is "If I'm not able to ping a host, do I know that
it's down?" You don't.
--
Shields, CrossLink.
