[29291] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Application versimilitude (was RE: PMTU-D: remember, your loa
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rdobbins@netmore.net)
Fri Jun 16 06:48:33 2000
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 03:48:01 -0700
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From: Roeland Meyer (E-mail) [mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com]
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Subject: RE: Application versimilitude (was RE: PMTU-D: remember, your
load balancer is broken )
>snip<
>Actually, this is simplistic. There are many cases where you have
>either binary-only (as in the case of Oracle) or the code has
>been thorugh the QA cycle and one is not allowed to touch it
>(even if one is allowed, hopefully one would know better).
Oh, I agree with that. In the binary-only or past-QA instances, one must
do lots of sniffing and tweaking.
I guess all this "let's go to big MTUs NOW" talk just struck me as a bit
premature.
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