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Re: Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?


From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog () radu-adrian feurdean net>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 10:24:46 +0200



On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, at 21:53, William Herrin wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:10 PM Brandon Applegate <brandon () burn net> wrote:
  - Traceroutes are miserable.

Also breaks PMTUD which can break TCP for everybody whose packets
transit your router. So don't do this.

... unless you happen to provide a "MTU1500" service over a jumboframe (more than 9100) backbone, which you can very 
easily do these days. In which case fragmentation/packet too big should never occur.

Traceroutes remain miserable, at least from outside towards your network. 


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