Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:53:07 -0700 From: "Balaji, Pavan" <pavan.balaji@intel.com> To: "'Paul Everlund'" <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>, trevarthan@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: MTU discovery Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD69BD@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>
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Pavan Balaji,
Intel Corporation
Email: pavan.balaji@intel.com
"Only the Paranoid Survive" -- Andy Grove
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Everlund [mailto:tdv94ped@cs.umu.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:08 PM
> To: trevarthan@wingnet.net
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: MTU discovery
>
>
> Matthias Trevarthan wrote:
> >
> > Howdy list,
> >
> > How might I discover the MTU from my location to some arbitrary
> > location on the internet?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Matthias Trevarthan
>
> I have not very much knowledge on this particualr subject, but
> I'll give it a try.
>
> When finding the MTU I guess you will not always get the MTU size
> at the destination, but the smallest MTU on the path to the desti-
> nation.
>
> If doing ping to a destination, specifying the packetsize, this
> should probably determine the smallest MTU on the path, by trial
> and error. There are probably some applications doing this auto-
> matically, but I don't know of any.
>
> I presume you have already searched Google for MTU discovery?
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
>
>
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