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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