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Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Oct 26 13:29:01 2001 
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:01:38 CDT, "Quibell, Marc" said:
> That's all fine Valdis, but no one does MTU check on the internet or pmtu
> checks. This is all LAN-based...

Umm.. I'm confused.  What's all LAN-based?

Or you saying that PMTU Discovery isn't used *at all*?

Or that it's not *widely* used, mostly because a large chunk of the net *is*
stuck at 1500-byte MTUs, and a large fraction of the rest has broken PMTU
discovery because of boneheaded ICMP filtering?

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech

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