Chris Marget wrote:
>>> I'll probably come around, but I've not yet concluded that "screw it,
>>> fragment my traffic, I don't care" is the stance that a conscientious
>>> application should be taking.
>>
>> Don't you care, for routers, generating ICMP PTB is as burdensome
>> as generating fragments?
>
> I don't think so. If PMTUD is working (big IF, I know),
Yup.
> the ICMP PTB
> generation is a one-time thing (or once per 10 minutes or whatever)
A meaningful interval of retry is not 10 minutes but RTT measured
at layer 4 or above.
> Is the concern that I might DDoS myself
Or, with spoofed source addresses, someone else.
Masataka Ohta
