[j-nsp] BGP mtu-discovery and current behaviour

[Pekka Savola]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Pedro Roque Marques wrote:
>> Hi, JunOS 7.0 seems to be supporting BGP mtu-discovery.  No
>> documentation, however, describes the *current* behaviour.
>
>> What *is* the current behaviour?  (It might not hurt to have a
>> better description of what mtu-discovery actually does, depending on
>> the current behaviour)
>
> mtu-discovery enables TCP path mtu discovery. The current behaviour is
> to have it disabled by default.

Mmm, yes :-).  But what size does the BGP limit the packet size when 
it's disabled?  512 bytes as suggested by someone?  The MTU of the 
egress interface used to send the packet?  Something else?

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