From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 11:20:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8635187C-8CB8-4483-B87D-6CF2A09063D6@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FA68C9F1-AEC4-476A-89FA-424ECAB28002@orthanc.ca>
> On May 9, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
>
>> On May 9, 2015, at 7:43 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>>
>> easy enough until one encounters devices that don't send icmp
>> responses because it's not implemented, or somehow considered
>> "secure" that way.
>
> Oddly enough, I don't see this 'problem' in the real world. And FreeBSD is far from being alone in the always-set-DF bit.
>
> The only place this bites is when you run into tiny shops with homegrown firewalls configured by people who don't understand networking or security. Me, I consider it a feature that these sites self-select themselves off the network. I'm certainly no worse off for not being able to talk to them.
Network admins not understanding ICMP was far more common 20 years ago. Now the game has changed. At any rate no harm in trying PMTU discovery as an option (other than a SMOP).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-09 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 9:32 KADOTA Kyohei
2015-05-04 16:10 ` Anthony Sorace
2015-05-04 18:11 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-05-04 18:51 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-05 14:29 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2015-05-05 15:05 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-05-05 15:38 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-05 22:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-05-05 22:29 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-05 22:33 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-05 22:53 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-05-06 20:55 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-06 21:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-05-06 21:26 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-06 21:28 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-06 22:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-05-07 3:35 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-07 6:15 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-07 13:17 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-08 16:13 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-08 16:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-05-08 17:16 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-08 19:24 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-08 20:03 ` Steve Simon
2015-05-08 21:19 ` Bakul Shah
2015-05-09 14:43 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-09 17:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-05-09 17:30 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2015-05-09 17:35 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-05-09 21:54 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2015-05-09 18:20 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2015-05-09 3:11 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-09 5:59 ` lucio
2015-05-09 16:26 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-09 16:23 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-10 4:55 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-10 5:07 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-10 17:57 ` David du Colombier
2015-05-10 20:18 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-10 20:19 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-10 20:51 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-10 21:34 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-11 1:23 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-09 16:59 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-06 22:35 ` Steven Stallion
2015-05-06 23:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-05-07 3:38 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-07 3:43 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-05 15:07 ` KADOTA Kyohei
2015-05-05 14:47 ` KADOTA Kyohei
2015-05-05 15:46 ` steve
2015-05-05 15:54 ` David du Colombier
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