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I'd probably be saying "Eureka!" if this were 1997. But it's 2015. This is super basic stuff. Do people these days just blindly assume a MSS of 1460 is going to

by scurvy 11y ago

I'd probably be saying "Eureka!" if this were 1997. But it's 2015. This is super basic stuff. Do people these days just blindly assume a MSS of 1460 is going to work on the Internet? Or do they think that the Internet is comprised entirely of Ethernet links? Or has the use of cloud providers and reliance on higher level programming languages produced a generation of ops people who don't understand the mechanics of how things work?

scurvy 11y ago
Everyone who downvoted my comment needs to pick up and read a copy of Comer's "Internetworking with TCP/IP". That and Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated are the best sources for networking out there. You won't find the info on any blog. It won't be in something on ServerFault or StackOverflow and definitely not HN. Buy, read, learn. Yes, I know the US publisher has messed with the pricing for current versions but you can find the previous ones used pretty cheap. Other than dropping the IPng chapter, I doubt much has changed.