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Re: RFC 1918

  • From: Bennett Todd
  • Date: Fri Jul 14 16:27:05 2000 
2000-07-14-15:47:22 Steven M. Bellovin:
> No -- 1918 addresses would only break PMTU if folks did ingress or
> egress filtering for 1918 addresses.

Wouldn't RFC 1918 addrs on router links only threaten to break
PMTU --- even in the face of 1918 addr filtering --- if one of
the routers with an rfc 1918 interface addr did routing between
interfaces with different MTUs? As best I can see, PMTU discovery
should work fine traversing RFC 1918 links, and the only addrs
that need to be passed on out are those of routers where the MTU
decreases along the path, which would only be routers with different
MTUs on different interfaces.

-Bennett

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