Re: Re: routers don't fragment any packet. End hosts all MUST

From: johngibson1541@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 11:53:35 ART

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No. Something is not right here.

I am so shocked to learn that path MTU discovery protocol uses ICMP.

Many enterprise networks block all ICMP packets. How could this path MTU
discovery thing ever work in our public Internet ?

What are we doing ? I am totally lost.

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