On (02/27/09 09:46), James Carlson wrote: > Yep. And if asked, I'd say I'd like to see the tunable removed. It's > silly.
the only reason I can think that a tunable would be mildly useful is *if* we had interop problems with some implementation that didn't like the 576 byte icmp error we sent. Are there actually any such cases out there (I would think not!) > And I'm not buying any "performance" argument here. We're talking > about the delivery of errors. Applications aren't built to deliver > bulk data via error reports. If performance (or perhaps more > accurately DoS risk) is really a concern, then we should just throttle > the rate at which we send any messages at all, rather than trying to We already have icmp error rate-limiting in place for that. > So, yes, I think the default should be larger, but I'm really unsure > that there should be a tunable here. exactly. --Sowmini
