Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:57:31 -0800 (PST) From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> To: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, aditya kiran <adityaa.kiran@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PMTU Discovery support Message-ID: <20070305115615.W38684@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <45EC6E88.3080101@tomjudge.com> References: <994cd1cf0703050842r5e54daa6y5fe6af3083e15cd@mail.gmail.com> <45EC6E88.3080101@tomjudge.com>
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> As I understand it, it is not possible to detect upward changes in the path > MTU as there is no mechanism for a router to generate an error when a packet > is small enough to be accommodated by the MTU of the link to the next hop. I > may be wrong though. RFC1191 section 6.3. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1191.txt --lyndon
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