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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:53:36 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection
Message-ID:  <f6c42c83-ec95-bef3-6511-3ed12b7feb6a@grosbein.net>
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14.11.2019 4:28, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

> Running 11.3, is there any risk or downside in enabling this?
> 
> I cannot reach my homebanking otherwise; I think either the bank has completely disabled ICMP or some router in between filters it.
> 
> I see it's not enabled by default: is it just out of precaution?

I guess it's a misfeature. It should be enabled by default. Feel free to enable it locally.

Note I have not said it should be enabled unconditionally as there may be edge cases (high-load servers)
when extra processing may be undesirable.



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