On 20 aug 2008, at 20:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hypothetically true. Unfortunately, enough places do bozo firewalling and drop the ICMP Frag Needed packets to severely limit the utility of PMTU Discovery.
Yet all OSes have it enabled and there is no fallback to fragmentation in PMTUD: if your system doesn't get the ICMP messages, your session is dead in the water.