Sorry if I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you said that they couldn't have their cake and eat it too, as in protect against Ping of death, AND do PMTUD.
As for those flames, well, that was a long time ago, in a valley not too far from here ;-). Can we have the 'net before the endless September back? > -----Original Message----- > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:40 PM > To: Tomas L. Byrnes > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? > > On 7 mei 2008, at 23:20, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > > > I was responding to his post that blocking or disabling > PMTUD was the > > way to avoid the ping of death, which is False, nothing > more, nothing > > less. > > I never said that disabling PMTUD will get rid of the ping of > death, what I said was that if your system is susceptible to > a ping of death you may be tempted to filter ICMP but if you > do that then you need to disable PMTUD because PMTUD + ICMP > filtering = breakage. > > > As far as who Iljitsch is, everyone misspeaks from time to > time. Even > > those of us who have been at this for nearly 3 decades. > > After making the jump to academia I often feel a bit long in > the tooth between all these students. But considering that > (apparently) some people have been posting flames on NANOG > for 30 years makes me feel young in comparison. :-) > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
