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From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, roger@kea.GRace.CRi.NZ,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:53:29 +0300 (MSK)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102181953.WAA27509@ms2.inr.ac.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14TVWn-0000vQ-00@the-village.bc.nu> from "Alan Cox" at Feb 15, 1 09:01:21 pm

Hello!

> Message size != MTU.

Alan, you misunderstand _sense_ of the problem.

Fragmentation does _not_ work on poor internet more. At all.
Look at original report. It failed _only_ because his intemediate
node failed to forward fragmented packets.

Alexey

  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-18 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-14 20:39 roger
2001-02-14 20:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-15 18:21 ` kuznet
2001-02-15 18:47   ` Alan Cox
2001-02-15 19:33     ` kuznet
2001-02-15 20:27       ` Alan Cox
2001-02-15 20:41         ` kuznet
2001-02-15 21:01           ` Alan Cox
2001-02-18 19:53             ` kuznet [this message]
2001-02-19  1:44               ` Alan Cox
2001-02-19 18:26                 ` kuznet
2001-02-19 22:20                   ` Rick Jones
2001-02-16 12:54           ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-18 11:26           ` Pierfrancesco Caci
2001-02-16 12:51       ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-18 19:55         ` kuznet
2001-02-18  9:39     ` David S. Miller
2001-02-18 20:17       ` kuznet
2001-02-18 20:32     ` kuznet
2001-02-15 20:40   ` Rick Jones
2001-02-15 20:54     ` Jordan Mendelson

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