On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Ken Chase <m...@sizone.org> wrote: > And we know the whole internet observes handling > mtu discovery properly > and doesnt just firewall all ICMP because 'hackers'. > > (OP's issue may well be MTU discovery, esp if he's on > broadband. Don't have > enough details. I just solved this exact problem a couple > weeks ago for a > client with an UBNT ERX by turning on it's MTU hacking > feature. Sites that > engaged in ICMP mtu blocking included cnn.com.)
Heh. And because life isn't interesting enough, Amazon AWS has started defaulting their larger VMs to a 9001 byte interface MTU. > I meant routers are allowed to drop ICMP request > packets to themselves, not > the packets to be transitted. I wasnt clear. I think you really meant echo-request packets to themselves, right? ;) Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
