(Message mtu:9)
Date:    Mon, 01 Dec 1997 20:29:23 GMT
From:    hmo@sep.hamburg.com (Helge Oldach)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Cannot reach sites with MTU<1500
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In <slrn685c4v.gfb.titi@azuret.rominet.net> titi@rominet.net (Alain Thivillon) writes:
| Hank Nussbacher <hank@interall.co.il> wrote:
| > Yet another fine product from Microsoft.
| Solaris 2.x use Path MTU Discovery, FreeBSD 2.2.x too, and many others
| modern Unixes.

Correct, but they don't misbehave on ICMPs and don't expose (known) ICMP
security holes, so there is no need for ICMP filtering. Consequently,
their PMTU discovery does what it was designed for.

Helge