From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 14:53:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1F637B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:53:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from petasus.ch.intel.com (petasus.ch.intel.com [143.182.124.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2386643E6E for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:53:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavan.balaji@intel.com) Received: from fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com (fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com [132.233.42.129]) by petasus.ch.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: solo.mc,v 1.42 2002/05/23 22:21:11 root Exp $) with SMTP id g7KEtFA02070 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:55:15 GMT Received: from fmsmsx29.FM.INTEL.COM ([132.233.42.29]) by fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.2.11) with SMTP id M2002082014514619071 ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:51:46 -0700 Received: by fmsmsx29.fm.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3XNGW7PN>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:53:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD69BD@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> From: "Balaji, Pavan" To: "'Paul Everlund'" , trevarthan@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: MTU discovery Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:53:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "traceroute" -- does the same -- automatically 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message