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Does Linux have an Equivalent of Windows PMTU Blackhole Router Discovery?

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Under windows there is a registry setting to enable "Blackhole Router Detection", enabling path MTU discovery to function when there are misconfigured routers / firewalls in the path blocking the ICMP fragmentation needed messages. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc958871.aspx Is there a…

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Yes, you can. To quote from the linux kernel mailing list in 2008: From: John Heffner Subject: Re: PMTU Discovery - Does it work? Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 1:19 pm Message-ID: [...] This is a well known issue (RFC 2923), and was the motivation …

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