On 7 mei 2008, at 23:20, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
I was responding to his post that blocking or disabling PMTUD was the way to avoid the ping of death, which is False, nothing more, nothing less.
I never said that disabling PMTUD will get rid of the ping of death, what I said was that if your system is susceptible to a ping of death you may be tempted to filter ICMP but if you do that then you need to disable PMTUD because PMTUD + ICMP filtering = breakage.
As far as who Iljitsch is, everyone misspeaks from time to time. Even those of us who have been at this for nearly 3 decades.
After making the jump to academia I often feel a bit long in the tooth between all these students. But considering that (apparently) some people have been posting flames on NANOG for 30 years makes me feel young in comparison. :-)