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Re: (ICMP attacks against TCP) (was Re: HPSBUX01137 SSRT5954 Jul 21 2005 05:50AM
Darren Reed (avalon caligula anu edu au) (2 replies)
Re: (ICMP attacks against TCP) (was Re: HPSBUX01137 SSRT5954 Jul 22 2005 12:26AM
Dana Hudes (dhudes hudes org)
Re: (ICMP attacks against TCP) (was Re: HPSBUX01137 SSRT5954 Jul 21 2005 05:17PM
Casper Dik Sun COM

>> There are still some radio links with MTUs of 296 bytes.
>
>Go search with google....people still actively use smaller MTUs.
>
>What do you do? Where do you draw the line in the sand?

Well, the minimum requirement for "you must be able to reassemble this"
is 576; so you use PMTU until you go as low as 576 at which point you
stop using the DF bit.

Casper

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