Subject: Re: PMTUD blackhole detection
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/02/2001 17:55:58
>> if you know that PMTUD is failing for particular paths, you should
>> be able to set a lower path MTU value by using route(8) (use -mtu
>> keyword).
>I understand he wants to make this automatic?
could you be more specific?
if you are thinking about the following, i can't, or do not want to.
we cannot do this since we have no idea where the breakage is.
- if we detect PMTUD failing for particular host (foo/32), turn off
PMTUD for foo/24.
itojun