IESG Advice from Experience with Path MTU Discovery
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While reviewing the Path MTU Discovery Protocol for Draft Standard [RFC1191], the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) became aware from the reports of various implementors that some vendors have added to their routers the ability to disable ICMP messages generated by the router. This is to protect older BSD hosts, which would drop all connections to a host it found an ICMP message on any of the connections, even if it was a non-fatal ICMP message. While this protects older BSD hosts, it causes MTU discovery to fail in a silent, hard to diagnose way.
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- RFC
دوره 1435 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993