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Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:52:43 -0600
On Jan 15, 2014, at 9:37 AM, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
But what I'm saying is that that whether or not they want to use jumbo frames for Internet traffic, it doesn't matter, because PMTU-D is likely to be broken either at the place where the traffic is initiated, the place where the traffic is received, or both - so any nonsense in the middle, especially on IXP networks in particular, isn't really a significant issue in and of itself.
Your assertion does not match my deployment experience. When I have deployed endpoints that have working PMTU-D, I have 99.999% success with the ISP's in the middle having working PMTU-D. It even works fine for 9K providers connected to 1500B exchange points, because the packet-too-big typically originates from the input side of the router (the backbone link to the IXP router). Indeed, the only place I've seen it broken is where the ISP 9K peers at an exchange, and the "far end" ISP runs a < 9K backbone (like 4470), so the far end IXP-router does the packet-to-big, and originates it from the exchange LAN, which because it's no longer in the table fails to past uRPF. (Business class) ISP's don't break PMTU-D, end users break it with the equipment they connect. So a smart user connecting equipment that is properly configured should be able to expect it to work properly. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes, (continued)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Florian Weimer (Jan 18)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Leo Bicknell (Jan 14)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 14)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Leo Bicknell (Jan 14)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 14)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Dobbins, Roland (Jan 14)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Leo Bicknell (Jan 15)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Dobbins, Roland (Jan 15)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Leo Bicknell (Jan 15)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Dobbins, Roland (Jan 15)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Leo Bicknell (Jan 15)
- Re: best practice for advertising peering fabric routes Dobbins, Roland (Jan 15)
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