According to Glynn Clements:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > However, since M$ NT sends packets with DF on by default,
> > many clueless firewall administrators block all ICMP,
>
> I don't quite understand the use of "since" here, i.e. why the second
> line follows from the first.
That is because you left out half of the sentence:
since M$ NT sends packets with DF on by default, [and]
many clueless firewall administrators block all ICMP,
and a lot of layer4 load balancing switches are broken wrt sending
ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED back to the source (like www.google.com!)
===>
nobody will notice one site more being severly broken.
It might not be the greatest sentence I ever constructed though which
isn't surprising if you look at what time I posted it :)
I recently set up a tunnel with an MTU of 1472 to link a site to the
Internet, and most NT based sites (www.telefoongids.kpn-telecom.nl
for example) and even www.google.com simply didn't work.
Mike.
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