On 15/08/2010 18:02, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Valdis Kletnieks:
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:46:49 +0200, Florian Weimer said:
And that connection that's trying to use PMTU got established across the commodity internet, how, exactly? ;)
ICMP "fragmentation needed, but DF set" messages carry the a addresses of intermediate routers which generate them (potentially in response to MTU drops) as source addresses, not the IP addresses of the peers in a connection.
If any long-haul carriers are originating ICMP packets for other people's consumption from 1918 addresses rather than addresses in their address space, it's time to name-n-shame so the rest of us can vote with our feet and checkbooks. There's no excuse for that in this day and age.
What does "originating" mean? Creating the packets? Or forwarding them?
My bus originates in the town of bananaville, but before it finally originates at mangoburgh, it originates through 5 other towns. Wow, that would be a confusing language to speak. ;) The origin is the beginning point of something, where it is created. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/origin I'll let you off as you're German and German doesn't use any words with related etymology :> Though really, if you know BGP you should understand the term 'origin'. adam.