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It absolutely does stop SSH or Web traffic, if the network path goes through a link with MTU < 1500 and the connection comes in with MSS > PMTU - 40. But only,
by keithwinstein 14y ago
It absolutely does stop SSH or Web traffic, if the network path goes through a link with MTU < 1500 and the connection comes in with MSS > PMTU - 40. But only, as the post says, once you start sending a lot of data in one TCP segment.
- sillysaurus 14y agoI thought MTU of ~1500 was (realistically) the minimum nowadays?
- danudey 14y agoI've had more than a few cases where I couldn't SSH into a system at a hospital or clinic because the VPN/firewall/whatever that their connection went over rejected packets with too high of an MTU. Generally you'll get your SSH connection and it'll hang in the middle of the MOTD.
- gonzo 14y agoyou thought wrong. RFC 791, p. 24, "Every internet module must be able to forward a datagram of 68 octets without further fragmentation."