On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 14:57 -0700, Erik Nordmark wrote: > 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".
That sounds fine to me. -Seb
