barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh, ipsec
Jo Rhett
jrhett at svcolo.com
Mon May 7 22:26:50 UTC 2007
On May 7, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Peter Dambier wrote:
> I remember from my early DSL days, it was recommended to configure
> mtu=1480 on all interfaces connected to the internet or to the NAT-
> router.
Yes, I remember that too. Back when I was a consultant I came out to
a lot of sites and undid that change because it just breaks things if
you did that on your router and not on your hosts.
And note, hosts on *both* sides of every connection.
Which in short means: doesn't work in Real Life.
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Jo Rhett
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