On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 18:06, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> 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.
If you switch off PMTU discovery and have a normal ethernet (1500) MTU
set then chunks of the internet will vanish to you as well....
Nigel.
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