Re: [dccp] PMTU issues

2003-11-19 Thread Eddie Kohler
It's also possible for DCCP to get a better initial estimate of the PMTU, and apparently there are other problems with the current DCCP PMTUD mechanism (using ICMP can't fragment messages). Yes -- The current draft tries to make clear (but fails to) that a new, PLPMTUD-style MTU discovery

Re: [pmtud] Re: [dccp] PMTU issues

2003-11-15 Thread Eddie Kohler
A packetization layer should set an ECN codepoint in the packets it sends IFF it is also doing Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (PLPMTUD) and is not expecting to get ICMP's back from the network in response to too-large packets being dropped. Why overload the ECN bit this