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Re: Youtube Geolocation


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:12:35 -0400

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Harry Strongburg <harry.nanog () harry lu> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:55:03PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
how has mtu got anything to do with packet path?

PMTUD?

that won't change the destination based routed path, it'll cause the
endpoints to lower their MTU to a mutually agreeable threshold. The
packets will still flow along the same path.
(besides pmtud brings the mtu down, not up... the proposal was to raise the mtu)

-chris


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