end2end? (was: RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ...

Mon Sep 10 20:31:03 UTC 2001

In article <F5F3FBBFC94DD4118E4500D0B74A095F013E70E1 at EMAIL2>,
Hire, Ejay <Ejay.Hire at Broadslate.net> wrote:
>Using RFC 1918 space inside a network on transit segments that will be
>passing data but not generating it makes sense.

Only if the MTUs on all interfaces of the routers are the same.
Otherwise you might generate a ICMP size exceeded message that
will never reach the sender, breaking Path MTU Discovery.

Mike.
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