31 Aug
2015
31 Aug
'15
8:55 p.m.
Chris Marget wrote:
I'll probably come around, but I've not yet concluded that "screw it, fragment my traffic, I don't care" is the stance that a conscientious application should be taking.
Don't you care, for routers, generating ICMP PTB is as burdensome as generating fragments?
I don't think so. If PMTUD is working (big IF, I know),
Yup.
the ICMP PTB generation is a one-time thing (or once per 10 minutes or whatever)
A meaningful interval of retry is not 10 minutes but RTT measured at layer 4 or above.
Is the concern that I might DDoS myself
Or, with spoofed source addresses, someone else. Masataka Ohta