Mark Smith;

>>>A number of commercial
>>>products and applications do rely on PMTU to work, and will
>>>do an PATH MTU discovery, and send the MTU sized packets with
>>>DF (don't frag).
>>
>>and send packets larger than MTU expecting to receive ICMP
>>errors in vain.
>>
>>Read the original mail of the thread on the reality.

> The problem identified has nothing to do with the concept or
> typical implementations of PMTUD being broken.

Wrong.

> RFC1192 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1191.txt) is the spec
> for PMTUD. 

Read the RFC.

It says "To detect increases in a path's PMTU, a host periodically
increases its assumed PMTU".

                                                        Masataka Ohta



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