Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:46:39 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>, William Carrel <william.carrel@infospace.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: path_mtu_discovery Message-ID: <20020104234639.GA53752@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <3C363C47.1AE94141@mindspring.com> References: <26E71536-013D-11D6-8ED3-003065D5E9A4@infospace.com> <3C36149B.B9C02DCF@mindspring.com> <20020104223235.GA64301@gvr.gvr.org> <200201042302.g04N2A789953@whizzo.transsys.com> <3C363C47.1AE94141@mindspring.com>
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In a message written on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:35:35PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Of course, now you've let the dirty little secret out of the
> bag: the MTU is on the *route*, which means on the next hop,
> so a spoof that got through would frag basically all traffic
> out of the victim machine down to 296 bytes...
I might be assuming something here, but I want to clarify. It is
_NOT_ the case that a box with say, only a default route, would
limit _ALL_ TCP connections to the lowest returned MTU.
The MTU is on the *route*, where *route* == the cloned route,
correct?
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