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Date:      Thu, 8 May 1997 13:20:01 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Cc:        tom@sdf.com, fenner@parc.xerox.com, smc@servtech.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP Performance
Message-ID:  <199705082020.NAA25464@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <97May8.111829pdt.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at May 8, 97 11:18:22 am

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> Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> wrote:
> >  How would this misconfiguration occur?  Just two routers with
> >mis-matched MTU/MRU sizes?
> 
> No, the only way for PMTU discovery to fail is for a router to not
> return ICMP fragmentation required errors.  I don't know how to
> configure a router to do this, since it's required by RFC1812,
> but perhaps there's a firewall in the way.

Or a proxy server.  It's impossible to legally proxy this as anything
but unicast boradcasts, and it requires a *very* smart proxy, then,
and it's still not RFC compilant.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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