Subject: Re: DF strikes again
To: Jukka Marin <firstname.lastname@example.org>
From: None <email@example.com>
Date: 03/15/2001 21:38:27
>> I beleive we must not do that.
>Then how do you correct a situation where MTU is too small and some remote
>site is doing PMTU discovery _and_ blocking ICMP packets? Yes, the problem
>should be fixed at the remote site, but what if you NEED to use that site
>and they do NOT fix the problem?
if the your web client is contacting broken web server (or a web
server behind wrongly configured router) advertise smaller TCP MSS.