[66017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Minimum Internet MTU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGrath)
Mon Dec 22 10:02:36 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:01:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott McGrath <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87llp4vrzo.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Or the X.25/IP gateways beloved of Airlines who are also good at
complaining when traffic is dropped on the floor
Scott C. McGrath
On 22 Dec 2003, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
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> Chris Brenton <cbrenton@chrisbrenton.org> writes:
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> > I agree, this is a bit of a loaded question. I guess by safe I mean "Is
> > anyone aware of a specific link or set of conditions that could cause
> > _legitimate_ non-last fragmented packets on the wire that have a size of
> > less than 1200 bytes". I agree there are bound to be inexperienced users
> > who have shot themselves in the foot and tweaked their personal system
> > lower than this threshold, thus my 99.9% requirement.
>
> You mean like everyone who's still running TCP/IP over AX.25 in the
> ham radio community? They're generally technically adept and good at
> complaining... I'm sure rbush would encourage his competitors to do this.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish by killing off the fragments?
>
> ---Rob
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