XPost: comp.os.linux.networking   
   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Morten Reistad  wrote:   
      
   > Someone has broken your network. Possibly your access to the whole   
   internet is broken.   
      
   > Whenever someone sends a packet with a DF (don't fragment) bit on   
   > they are supposed to be notified. Does not alway happen. The   
   > notifier could be behind NAT, possibly several, and someone less   
   > than clueful may have entered a filter, or there may be some load   
   > balancer somewhere sending payload packets in one directions and   
   > icmp in another. Such brokenness is everywhere.   
      
   Yet... unless the routing changes based on DF being set, if the max   
   before things stopped working with DF set was 13whatever, shouldn't   
   the responses for the DF clear and 14whatever have come back   
   fragmented?  Or is the hypothesis that the brokenness is on the way   
   out?   
      
   rick jones   
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