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Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:40:02 +0200
On 7 mei 2008, at 23:20, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
I was responding to his post that blocking or disabling PMTUD was the way to avoid the ping of death, which is False, nothing more, nothing less.
I never said that disabling PMTUD will get rid of the ping of death, what I said was that if your system is susceptible to a ping of death you may be tempted to filter ICMP but if you do that then you need to disable PMTUD because PMTUD + ICMP filtering = breakage.
As far as who Iljitsch is, everyone misspeaks from time to time. Even those of us who have been at this for nearly 3 decades.
After making the jump to academia I often feel a bit long in the tooth between all these students. But considering that (apparently) some people have been posting flames on NANOG for 30 years makes me feel young in comparison. :-) _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG () nanog org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
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- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?, (continued)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Stephen Sprunk (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Rich Kulawiec (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Nathan Anderson/FSR (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Michael Sinatra (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Iljitsch van Beijnum (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Tomas L. Byrnes (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Nathan Anderson/FSR (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Iljitsch van Beijnum (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Nathan Anderson/FSR (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Tomas L. Byrnes (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Iljitsch van Beijnum (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Tomas L. Byrnes (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Nathan Anderson/FSR (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Tomas L. Byrnes (May 07)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Nathan Anderson/FSR (May 07)
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- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Joel Jaeggli (May 08)
- Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole? Iljitsch van Beijnum (May 08)
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