Subj : Re: New One
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Fri Nov 20 2020 18:49:00

-=> On 11-19-20 21:22, Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 RM> At least IPv4 can fragment on the way.
 RM> IPv6 is dropped instead of fragmented ... that makes a difference ;)

True, but I have seen a lot of PMTU failures on IPv4 let small amounts of data
through (up to just under 1500 bytes), but bulk transfers hang.  In any case,
blocking ICMP leads to a lot of bad things happening. :)


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