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Re: RFC 1918

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Fri Jul 14 16:30:27 2000

In message <[email protected]>, Bennett Todd writes:
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>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.
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>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.

Yup.  And with most links handling 1500-byte MTUs or above, we don't 
see much of that.

		--Steve Bellovin