[25838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: should TCPs do MTU black hole detection?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Mcadams)
Thu Nov 18 21:48:50 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:44:48 -0500
From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
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Thus spake Randy Bush
>the choice seems
> o when it breaks, the noc gets the call, debugs it, and it gets fixed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Optimist!
> 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.
This one is pretty accurate though.
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