[15807] in Athena Bugs
Re: No path MTU discovery in Solaris TCP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Feb 25 00:20:37 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:20:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15806] in Athena Bugs"
> I'd recommend boosting tcp_mss_def to the max ifmtu. Three different
> approaches come to mind:
I am very loathe to frob low-level operating system settings away from
the defaults, especially when that could introduce difficult to
diagnose network problems. I don't consider it a high priority to
make sure that path MTU discovery takes place for connections to older
machines.
