Re: [squid-users] MTU problem

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:08:00 +0200

tis 2009-09-15 klockan 22:33 +1200 skrev Amos Jeffries:

>
> Sounds like a typical MTU situation. Forcing 9000 bytes through a 1500
> byte port on the switch will result in failure. The switch will be
> generating ICMP messages to signal the problem and cause automatic
> packet reduction to kick in.

Switches don't, they just drop whatever oversized packets they can't
handle.

Routers (including switching routers) do send ICMP.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Sep 15 2009 - 18:08:04 MDT

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