On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 07:32:18AM -0600, Clifford Kite wrote:
> I don't follow that reasoning, but admit I'm not very knowledgeable about
> PMTU negotiation, which seems to be what you are writing about. I would
Me neither, but when I forced an MTU of 576 onto all users of the local
ISP they suddenly couldn't access one particular Banking site anymore, so
was forced to figure out what was going on.
> expect that those MTU and MRU are maximum values and any packet smaller
> would be acceptable. My thought was that 576 was a generally accepted
> default for Ethernet before PMTU was implemented, and some sites may still
> not implement PMTU negotiation so the 576 would help with them.
I think 1500 is a nice default for Ethernet. 576 is nice for slow dialups
though. (All my HMO of course :)
>
> |The symptom: ALL connections time out.
>
> I'd expect that if the packet size was larger but when it's not smaller.
Yes, that's right.
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