RE: Application versimilitude (was RE: PMTU-D: remember, your loa d balancer is broken )

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-----Original Message-----
From: Roeland Meyer (E-mail) [mailto:rmeyer () mhsc com]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 12:28 AM
To: rdobbins () netmore net; ssprunk () cisco com
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: RE: Application versimilitude (was RE: PMTU-D: remember, your
load balancer is broken )

> snip<

> Actually, this is simplistic. There are many cases where you have
> either binary-only (as in the case of Oracle) or the code has
> been thorugh the QA cycle and one is not allowed to touch it
> (even if one is allowed, hopefully one would know better). 

Oh, I agree with that.  In the binary-only or past-QA instances, one must
do lots of sniffing and tweaking.

I guess all this "let's go to big MTUs NOW" talk just struck me as a bit
premature.

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