[74828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I-D on operational MTU/fragmentation issues in tunneling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sabri Berisha)
Fri Oct 15 05:35:52 2004
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:33:55 +0200
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410141803080.7442-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:05:06PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Sabri Berisha wrote:
>
> > for the lack of knowledge of the end-user administrators or webmasters.
>
> ... or vendors of equipment that these people use. There are plenty of
> vendors out there who make loadsharing-equipment for the enterprise that
> doesn't handle all these cases.
Unfortunately yes. In fact, I quite recently found a problem in
Riverstone's SSR2000's which just drop host-unreachables on
tcp-loadbalanced connection.. However, we still need to ask the
question "do we keep finding workarounds for other peoples poor
administration/implementation of technical solutions?"..
The technical solution for MTU problems is Path MTU Discovery. If a
vendor fails to implement, one should not buy its equipment. If an
end-user breaks his own connectivity, he/she needs education.
That would be the ideal world. In the less-than ideal world we have to
find a way to defeat the cluelessness (excuse the language) of vendors
and end-users.
--
Sabri Berisha, SAB666-RIPE - I route, therefore you are
http://www.cluecentral.net - http://www.virt-ix.net
