Sez "Brandon Ross" <bross@netrail.net>
What platform adds static routes in response to PMTU discovery? I've never seen that before. What purpose does it serve to add statics? Some kind of caching of MTU per destination?
This is actually very common in "off-brand" (ie. anything besides Linux, *BSD, and Solaris) IP stacks. The current shipping versions of many OSes do some very odd things: cache a static route upon performing PMTUD, cache static routes to one of multiple default gateways, refuse to honor gratuitous ARPs, refuse to time out ARP entries, cache ARP entries with mcast MACs, cache ICMP redirects classfully, etc. What's worse is these "caches" tend to be permanent, usually not even allowing manual overrides (other than a reboot). S | | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723 :|: :|: Network Consulting Engineer, NSA :|||: :|||: 14875 Landmark Blvd #400; Dallas, TX .:|||||||:..:|||||||:. Email: ssprunk@cisco.com