[96393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh, ipsec
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Mon May 7 18:27:52 2007
In-Reply-To: <463F81E5.4030509@peter-dambier.de>
Cc: "'nanog'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:26:50 -0700
To: peter@peter-dambier.de
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On May 7, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Peter Dambier wrote:
> I remember from my early DSL days, it was recommended to configure
> mtu=1480 on all interfaces connected to the internet or to the NAT-
> router.
Yes, I remember that too. Back when I was a consultant I came out to
a lot of sites and undid that change because it just breaks things if
you did that on your router and not on your hosts.
And note, hosts on *both* sides of every connection.
Which in short means: doesn't work in Real Life.
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Jo Rhett
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