RE: Application versimilitude (was RE: PMTU-D: remember, your load balancer is broken )

[rdobbins]

-----Original Message-----
From: Roeland Meyer (E-mail) [mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 12:28 AM
To: rdobbins@netmore.net; ssprunk@cisco.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Application versimilitude (was RE: PMTU-D: remember, your
load balancer is broken )

>snip<

>Actually, this is simplistic. There are many cases where you have
>either binary-only (as in the case of Oracle) or the code has
>been thorugh the QA cycle and one is not allowed to touch it
>(even if one is allowed, hopefully one would know better). 

Oh, I agree with that.  In the binary-only or past-QA instances, one must
do lots of sniffing and tweaking.

I guess all this "let's go to big MTUs NOW" talk just struck me as a bit
premature.

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