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Re: Revised paper on "ICMP attacks against TCP"


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:53:12 +0200

* Fernando Gont:

IIRC, those Cisco products that are not vulnerable to the PMTU just don't 
implement PMTUD, right?

You can explicitly enable PMTUD if you want ("ip tcp
path-mtu-discovery").  It's recommended to reduce CPU overhead for
processing BGP message (no kidding, apparently it id make a difference
in the past).
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