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|    Pascal Hambourg to All    |
|    Re: icmp echo to a host with smaller mtu    |
|    22 Jun 13 15:54:47    |
      From: boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org              Barry Margolin a écrit :       >> My take on this is: you cannot really change the MTU on an interface       >> -- you can only tell the interface the actual MTU on the link.       >> If you lie to it, anything can happen. Or, rather, I assume anything       >> can happen.       >       > I'd expect B to receive the packet successfully, but it might not be       > able to reply because the reply doesn't fit in the MTU.              The reply can be sent with fragmentation.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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