[74894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I-D on operational MTU/fragmentation issues in tunneling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Stickland)
Tue Oct 19 14:34:05 2004
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:33:09 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
From: Sam Stickland <sam_ml@spacething.org>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>,
Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <416E9FB8.4010808@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Joe Maimon wrote:
> Sabri Berisha wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:12:55AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pekka and others,
>>
>>
>>> Please send comments to me by the end of this week, either on- of
>>> off-list, as you deem appropriate.
>>>
>>
>> With the risk of stating the obvious I would say that normally, PMTUD
>> should do the trick.
> On todays internet everything is more reliable than PMTUD.
>
> How about replacing it completely with something more inband, less prone to
> firewall breakage?
You mean something like Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (PLPMTUD)?
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pmtud-method-02.txt
http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/pmtud/
Sam
