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Path MTU Discovery (PMTU)

August 13th, 2012 No comments

An aide-memoir for PMTU operation.
Usually, the path MTU is determined using MTU Path Discovery. Usually, two hosts can dynamically negotiate the path MTU (e.g. client and server ) but networks that contain firewalls or tunnels (VPN, GRE, IPSec transport mode) sometimes require tuning the MTU values manually. Read more…

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