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	Title		: Path MTU discovery in the presence of security gateways
	Author(s)	: M. Richardson
	Filename	: draft-richardson-ipsec-pmtu-discov-02.txt
	Pages		: 7
	Date		: 04-Sep-98
	
This document describes the problem of getting accurate Path MTU infor-
mation in the presence of untrusted routers. Typical Path MTU discovery
is done by sending packets with the don't fragment bit set, and listen-
ing for ICMP messages from routers that want to fragment the packets.
Unfortunately, these messages could be forged, and IPsec based security
system(s) can not pass make direct use of these messages. An alternate,
backwards compatible algorithm is suggested.

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