Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:31:18 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Adam David" <adam@veda.is> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP interoperability problem, workaround Message-ID: <9602091531.AA03657@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199602090000.AAA03653@veda.is> References: <9602082045.AA28752@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199602090000.AAA03653@veda.is>
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<<On Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:00:05 +0000 (GMT), "Adam David" <adam@veda.is> said: > Okay, that makes good sense. Now, there is a high likelihood of there > still being vast numbers of such broken gateways out there... Actually, these have become quite rare in most parts of the world. (Nowadays you would buy a dedicated router or run FreeBSD where five years ago you might still use PCROUTE or the MIT C Gateway.) Particularly since Windows 95 does MTU discovery and has no way to turn it off... > Or as a third option, might it be possible or even desirable to implement a > fallback mechanism whereby if Path MTU Discovery fails due to a non-compliant > gateway There is no way to distinguish this case from `the other host is not responding'. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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