Sebastien Roy wrote:
>> This sounds wrong. If you set the "don't fragment bit" then you ARE doing
>> path MTU discovery. I think we only do this on TCP/IP and we don't
>> do this for ICMP (ping) or UDP (traceroute).
>
> That's also a typo, it should say "Turn on path MTU discovery".
It doesn't quite do that, since using path MTU discovery with ping or
traceroute would mean to most people that ping and traceroute would
report the path MTU it discovers (there versions of traceroute out there
that do just that).
Hence my suggestion to say "Turn off fragmentation".
Erik
