Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

Iljitsch van Beijnum iljitsch at muada.com
Wed Feb 4 23:21:08 UTC 2004


On 4-feb-04, at 23:46, Hani Mustafa wrote:

> How does a 50Mbyte MTU sound like?

Excessive. The trouble is that you get to throw away much more data for 
a single bit error and also that the difference between the average 
packet size and the maximum would be huge, so any statically allocated 
buffers would essentially be a waste of memory most of the time.




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