* Valdis Kletnieks: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:46:49 +0200, Florian Weimer said: > >> > And that connection that's trying to use PMTU got established across the >> > commodity internet, how, exactly? ;) >> >> ICMP "fragmentation needed, but DF set" messages carry the a addresses >> of intermediate routers which generate them (potentially in response >> to MTU drops) as source addresses, not the IP addresses of the peers >> in a connection. > > If any long-haul carriers are originating ICMP packets for other people's > consumption from 1918 addresses rather than addresses in their address space, > it's time to name-n-shame so the rest of us can vote with our feet and > checkbooks. There's no excuse for that in this day and age.
What does "originating" mean? Creating the packets? Or forwarding them?