Hi Michael, Nope - it was a pre-RFC 2178 thread involving Derek Yeung, John Moy, and others.
Thanks, Acee On May 28, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Michael Rozhavsky wrote: > Hi Acee, > >> >> I happen to remember the discussion of this problem on the OSPF >> list and >> this was not the primary motivation. > > I believe this is the discussion you are referring to: > > http://marc.info/?l=ms-ospf&m=103430314528492&w=4 > >> There were lots of problems with >> bridged heterogeneous LANs with mismatched MTUs (ethernet, FDDI, >> token >> ring, and the worst of all technologies - ATM emulated LANs :^). >> Adjacencies would come up fine initially but the exchange process >> would >> hang indefinitely when they were restarted due to the router with the >> larger MTU having a larger database and trying to use full DD >> packets. >> Unfortunately, the OSPF list was hosted on a server at Microsoft >> Corporation in those days and I don't have access to archives. >> Here is some >> text from RFC 2178, appendix G: >> > > -- > Michael Rozhavsky _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
