[43823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Oct 26 13:26:02 2001
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To: "Quibell, Marc" <mquibell@icn.state.ia.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:01:38 CDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:22:22 -0400
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:01:38 CDT, "Quibell, Marc" said:
> That's all fine Valdis, but no one does MTU check on the internet or pmtu
> checks. This is all LAN-based...
Umm.. I'm confused. What's all LAN-based?
Or you saying that PMTU Discovery isn't used *at all*?
Or that it's not *widely* used, mostly because a large chunk of the net *is*
stuck at 1500-byte MTUs, and a large fraction of the rest has broken PMTU
discovery because of boneheaded ICMP filtering?
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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