[25837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: should TCPs do MTU black hole detection?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Nov 18 21:37:05 1999
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
Cc: Vern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:35:19 -0500
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>> I'm wondering whether the ISP community has a clear preference for either
>> yes-do-detection or no-we-want-the-problems-fixed.
>> Comments appreciated.
> I think that most ISP's would prefer that problems were fixed.
the choice seems
o when it breaks, the noc gets the call, debugs it, and it gets fixed
o when it breaks, the software does successive guesswork back-offs until
it makes it through. the performance sucks big-time, the customer
thinks the isp is at fault, but the noc does not get called and the
real problem never gets fixed.
randy
