tilting at windmills discussion 2
Dorian Kim
dorian at cic.net
Wed Jun 19 22:01:14 UTC 1996
On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> > 512 544 576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
> > .004 .002 .189 .000 .069 .053 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000
> >
> >Collected at a private interconnect between CICNet, OARnet and OSU. over a
> >period of a week or so.
>
> This is not surprising if you think of it. Short packets are
> pure ACKs, telnet keystrokes and SYNs. What is worrying is the
> peak at 576. It means TCP unable to grasp that path MTU is
> really 1.5K.
Agreed. There's alot of bad/old implementations out there, and that's
something that should cause some worry..
-dorian
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