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I thought MTU of ~1500 was (realistically) the minimum nowadays?
by sillysaurus 14y ago
I 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."