WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again?

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Tue Mar 7 03:59:34 UTC 2017


On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Brielle Bruns <bruns at 2mbit.com> wrote:
> Lets not even get into the fact that we still can't fully utilize things
> like already established standards such as ECN, EDNS, and PMTUD effectively
> because firewall and security vendors still can't extricate their heads from
> backside and handle basic functionality of IPv4 without throwing the packets
> on the floor.

PMTUD is broken as designed, the one thing about TCP which directly
violates the end-to-end principle.

-Bill

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