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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:05:06PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > > for the lack of knowledge of the end-user administrators or webmasters. > > ... or vendors of equipment that these people use. There are plenty of > vendors out there who make loadsharing-equipment for the enterprise that > doesn't handle all these cases. Unfortunately yes. In fact, I quite recently found a problem in Riverstone's SSR2000's which just drop host-unreachables on tcp-loadbalanced connection.. However, we still need to ask the question "do we keep finding workarounds for other peoples poor administration/implementation of technical solutions?".. The technical solution for MTU problems is Path MTU Discovery. If a vendor fails to implement, one should not buy its equipment. If an end-user breaks his own connectivity, he/she needs education. That would be the ideal world. In the less-than ideal world we have to find a way to defeat the cluelessness (excuse the language) of vendors and end-users. -- Sabri Berisha, SAB666-RIPE - I route, therefore you are http://www.cluecentral.net - http://www.virt-ix.net
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