Interface MTU question...

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 12 21:00:04 UTC 2012


On 07/12/2012 01:50 PM, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> 
> On Jul 12, 2012, at 14:28 , Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> While y'all are looking at MTU (which is an increasingly important topic
>> as we move into a Gig+ world) I'm wondering what our support is for
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4821 ?? I asked this a while back and
>> never got an answer.
>>
>> This method of PMTUD is really important given the massive (stupid)
>> brokenness of people routinely blocking all of ICMPv4.
> 
> We do not support that RFC and support in other OSs is quite limited.
> It does not seem to be have been taken up by the Internet community
> in general.
> 
> That being said, it is an interesting mechanism.  Probably not a bad idea
> for a wish list item.

Thanks for the response.

Doug


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