Re: MTU/MRU, always-defrag, diald, masq not working for some URLs

Tom Oehser (tom@toms.net)
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 23:08:52 -0500 (EST)


>... Alas, somewhere between
> you and the failing site there is a box with a link MTU which is
> smaller than the path MTU.

Alas, that smaller link... *is my own PPP connection*!

So... can't the masquerading/forwarding piece be smart enough to reduce
the *initial* size requested, when it forwards that? Circumventing the
broken path MTU discovery? I *DO* understand that if the link in the
middle is out of my control, it is just broken on that end. But, it seems
the forwarding code *HAS* the pieces it needs to fix the <1460> into a
<256>, since it is in the middle of those two links...

-Tom

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