[c-nsp] transport path-mtu-discovery - ME3600....too unpredictable to use?

Andrew Miehs andrew at 2sheds.de
Wed Feb 24 08:22:46 EST 2016


> On 24 Feb 2016, at 11:47 PM, Andrew Miehs <andrew at 2sheds.de> wrote:
> 
> ...

> period of ?5? min, the reduced MTU to this host. During this time, it
> will send packets no bigger than new MTU - IP header size - TCP header
> size to the destination. Once this timer expires, the MTU will be
> increased again, and the process starts all over.


This should have read

"will send packets no bigger than the new MTU. If it is a TCP packet, the size of the TCP payload will be temporarily reduced to MTU - IP header size - TCP header size."




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