In a message written on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:26:54PM -0800, William Carrel wrote:
> See now you've made me curious, and I ask myself questions like: How
> robust is PMTU-D against someone malicious who wants to make us send
> tinygrams? Could the connection eventually be forced down to an MTU so
> low that no actual data transfer could occur, or TCP frames with only
> one byte of information?
I don't have the RFC handy, but aren't all Internet connected hosts
required to support a minimum MTU of 576 from end to end with no
fragmentation? Thus if we ever got an MTU less than 576 we should
ignore it. Right?
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