Re: which protocols does MTUD help?

mogul (Jeffrey Mogul) Fri, 01 December 1989 00:49 UTC

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From: mogul (Jeffrey Mogul)
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Date: 30 Nov 1989 1649-PST (Thursday)
To: Craig Partridge <craig@NNSC.NSF.NET>
Cc: mtudwg
Subject: Re: which protocols does MTUD help?
In-Reply-To: Craig Partridge <craig@NNSC.NSF.NET> / Thu, 30 Nov 89 07:31:07 -0500. <8911301233.AA08729@decwrl.dec.com>

	We may also use MTU discovery to help solve FDDI-Ethernet bridging
	problems (mismatched MTUs) -- note this requires the use of an option.

I'm confused.  Please describe in more detail what these problems are,
and why they require the use of an option (as opposed to, say, using
the "report any fragmentation" method, which might not actually work but is
at least conceptually possible).

-Jeff

which protocols does MTUD help? Craig Partridge
Re: which protocols does MTUD help? Jeffrey Mogul
Re: which protocols does MTUD help? William Westfield
Re: quibbling with Meeting report Jeffrey Mogul