On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 18:53, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> Sending datagrams bigger than the MTU is a bad idea.
> 
> I would be real tempted to drop the packets and send "don't fragment"
> ICMP responses to beat up anyone who abused UDP by sending larger
> than the MTU.
> 
> I guess this is about Linux UDP NFS clients, in particular.

Eh?  Isn't the original, traditional and best NFS configuration 8k UDP
packets?

Sure worked fine that way on SunOS-4 those many years ago.  (On LANs, of
course.  No one does NFS over the internet.  I hope.)

-- 
Andrew


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