Maybe I'm misreading this but...

Michael Shields shields at crosslink.net
Sat Oct 17 01:37:28 UTC 1998


In article <199810162153.RAA25346 at merit.edu>,
I Am Not An Isp <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> This is getting way out of hand.  The original question was "Does this
> break PMTU" (paraphrased), to which the answer is "NO".  There may or may
> not be external factors which, in combination with RFC1918 space, breaks
> PMTU.  But the answer to the original question is still "no".

It isn't.  Those "external factors" are very common, common enough
that they have to be considered in any analysis of whether to use RFC
1918 space or not on today's Internet.

A similar question is "If I'm not able to ping a host, do I know that
it's down?"  You don't.
-- 
Shields, CrossLink.



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