I'm cross-posting this from another list, since it relates to the recent discussions on Path MTU discovery:
Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fred Templin wrote:
I hate to say it, but frankly I think this whole PMTU business is a bunch of hooey. We have RFCs 1191 and 1981 as the service for packetization layers that require network level feedback, and those packetization layers can happily continue doing what they've been doing for the past decade or so.
But, new packetization layers that take the example of PLPMTUD require no feedback from the network and so they should have a means by which to turn the network layer feedback off. This should eventually dampen the noise from the unnecessary ICMP's as the new packetization layers supplant the old.
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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