> >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. >
+1 (the case and the clarifications) Casper
