job screening question

Thu Jul 5 20:45:54 UTC 2012

He might be thinking of the MMS adjustment as a result of PMTUD, which
most people forget about BTW, but I agree: PMTUD isn't about TCP, so
tossing TCP in there just makes it a very odd question.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Terry Baranski
<terry.baranski.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>
>> No, path MTU discovery is the answer I'm fishing for.
>
> The "TCP specifically" part of the question confused the heck out of me.
> PMTUD is an IP function in every way as far as I'm concerned. (If you're
> saying that the way it's actually coded makes it more like a TCP function,
> I'd still change the wording unless you're hiring people to write network
> drivers.)
>
> -Terry
>
>
>

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