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Comment by rlpb

13 years ago

Having a smaller MTU is fine. The problem comes when people start blocking the ICMP fragmentation needed packets, presumably due to some assumption that this will in some way help with security.

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mikeash  13 years ago

That's fine for TCP, but not good for a UDP protocol that can't make packets smaller.

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