IP tunnel MTU

Mon Oct 29 20:43:50 UTC 2012

Jared Mauch wrote:
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> On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Joe Maimon <jmaimon at ttec.com> wrote:
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>> Templin, Fred L wrote:
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>>> Yes; I was aware of this. But, what I want to get to is
>>> setting the tunnel MTU to infinity.
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>> Essentially, its time the network matured to the point where inter-networking actually works (again), seamlessly.
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>> I agree.
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> Certainly fixing all the buggy host stacks, firewall and compliance devices to realize that ICMP isn't bad won't be hard.
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> - Jared
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ICMP is just not the way it is ever going to work.

Joe