Subject: Re: default values for IPv4
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/12/2002 09:59:13
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:14:24AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I think this is the appropriate change. Historically, as we've improved
> our TCP, we have gradually turned on the new features by default after some
> time has passed to demonstrate that they actually work as expected. Path
> MTU was off because we didn't have blackhole detection and thus knew there
> were problems. Since you added blackhole detection, I don't think there's
> any reason for Path MTU to be off by default (Jason? Kevin?).
Not that I can think of.
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