On Jun 25, 2013, at 20:30 , Fred Baker (fred) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> in reality, you can not count on pmtud working

In reality, you can not count on the Internet working.  Despite that, it mostly 
works, most everywhere you need it to work, most of the time.  Only 
occasionally, does one encounter failure.

> One of these days, I'll understand why Linux/FreeBSD/Windows/Apple don't 
> implement RFC 4821. 

One of these days, I'll understand why operators don't make it MANDATORY for 
all hosts on their networks to implement RFC 4821 before they configure their 
routers to break ICMPv6 path MTU discovery.


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james woodyatt <[email protected]>
core os networking

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