Subject: Re: How do I activate path mtu discovery?
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/06/1998 18:38:00
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:37:01 +0200
Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I assumed that if I
>
> sysctl -w net.inet.ip.mtudisc = 1
>
> this would get activated. However, netstat -rn shows:
>
> jocelyn netinet !% netstat -rn
> Routing tables
>
> Internet:
> Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface
> default 193.175.27.1 UGS 0 103 - ppp0
> 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 64 - lo0
> 193.175.27.1 193.175.27.218 UH 2 357 - ppp0
> 193.175.27.216/29 link#1 UC 0 0 - bah0
> 193.175.27.217 4d UHLS 1 30 - bah0
>
> same as without that option enabled. What do I missing here?
Nothing... looks like you're just not encountering any situations where
you would send packets what would require fragmentation...
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