8 May
2008
8 May
'08
6:44 p.m.
* netgeek@bgp4.net (Janet Sullivan) [Thu 08 May 2008, 23:35 CEST]:
1) Yes, Microsoft blocks ICMP for the most part, which will break Path MTU Discovery. This is a known issue. If you run into it, its most likely because the servers you are trying to talk to in MS-land don't have black hole router detection turned on.
I find it hilarious that one part of the company had to come up with a hack to work around the inability of another part of the company to understand how TCP/IP works -- Niels. --