On 11/6/2010 4:40 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote:
For some value of "works". There are way too many places filtering
ICMP for PMTUD to work consistently. PMTUD is *not* the solution,
unfortunately.
He was referring to the updated RFC 4821.
" In the absence of ICMP messages, the proper MTU is determined by starting
with small packets and probing with successively larger packets. The
bulk of the algorithm is implemented above IP, in the transport layer
(e.g., TCP) or other "Packetization Protocol" that is responsible for
determining packet boundaries."
It is designed to support working without ICMP. It's draw back is the
ramp time, which makes it useless for small transactions, but it can be
argued that small transactions don't need larger MTUs.
Jack
