From owner-freebsd-arch Sat May 18 3:20: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mta03bw.bigpond.com (mta03bw.bigpond.com [139.134.6.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF74637B406 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 03:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org ([144.135.24.69]) by mta03bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta03bw Feb 26 2002 03:44:21) with SMTP id GWAY1600.HGT for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 20:19:54 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-132-243-222.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.243.222]) by bwmam01.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0m 2/1848402); 18 May 2002 20:19:54 Received: (qmail 2268 invoked from network); 18 May 2002 10:19:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (andrew@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 May 2002 10:19:54 -0000 Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ALTQ integration developer preview From: Andrew Reilly To: Terry Lambert Cc: Attila Nagy , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3CE61675.BCE2A9E1@mindspring.com> References: <3CE55A9B.73EA3DE4@mindspring.com> <3CE61675.BCE2A9E1@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 18 May 2002 20:19:54 +1000 Message-Id: <1021717195.1466.4.camel@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 18:53, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Sending datagrams bigger than the MTU is a bad idea. > > I would be real tempted to drop the packets and send "don't fragment" > ICMP responses to beat up anyone who abused UDP by sending larger > than the MTU. > > I guess this is about Linux UDP NFS clients, in particular. Eh? Isn't the original, traditional and best NFS configuration 8k UDP packets? Sure worked fine that way on SunOS-4 those many years ago. (On LANs, of course. No one does NFS over the internet. I hope.) -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message