[29173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PMTU-D: remember, your load balancer is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jun 14 07:46:51 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:44:09 -0400
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In message <200006140405.e5E45UL12480@black-ice.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt
.edu writes:
Also, he said that ADSL uses just under 1500.
>I don't have a Win98 or ADSL handy to check. ;)
A lot of DSL providers use PPPoE, which shrinks the effective MTU...
--Steve Bellovin