Christian Vogel wrote:
> please don't turn off path-mtu-discovery. It helps your system to
> discover the optimal packet size between it and the other side of
> a tcp-connection. It normally only breaks with badly configured routers
> and/or firewalls and this way you are doing those idiot-admins a favour
> by working around their brain-dead settings.
It breaks a large number of routers. Sad, but true. Better to do without it.
> tcp_ecn would be a good idea if more people used it, unfortunately
> (I have been told) there is non-updateable firewall and load-balancing
> hardware around that doesn't like the new header-bits.
Precisely. It breaks a large number of routers. Sad, but true. Better to
do without it.
Best,
Tony
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