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Re: Maybe I'm misreading this but...


From: shields () crosslink net (Michael Shields)
Date: 17 Oct 1998 01:37:28 +0000

In article <199810162153.RAA25346 () merit edu>,
I Am Not An Isp <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
This is getting way out of hand.  The original question was "Does this
break PMTU" (paraphrased), to which the answer is "NO".  There may or may
not be external factors which, in combination with RFC1918 space, breaks
PMTU.  But the answer to the original question is still "no".

It isn't.  Those "external factors" are very common, common enough
that they have to be considered in any analysis of whether to use RFC
1918 space or not on today's Internet.

A similar question is "If I'm not able to ping a host, do I know that
it's down?"  You don't.
-- 
Shields, CrossLink.


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