Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:16:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Krzysztof Oledzki <> | Subject | Re: mss to pmtu clamping partially broken? |
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 07:04:12PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> Do you really need clamping? It's a hack, since TCP should do MSS negotiation >>> itself. (Of course it may happen that some routers are broken.) But usually not >>> for incoming packets. >> >> You never know when you hit ICMP blackholes, broken routers and other >> evil things. Better safe than sorry so clamping is the way to go for me. > > I encourage you to report PMTUD Blackholes to the MSS Initiative at > http://www.phildev.net/mss/
Any chances for similar initiative for "SACK vandals"? ;)
Best regards,
Krzysztof Olędzki
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