mtu

Erik Kline ek at google.com
Mon Feb 2 19:59:31 CET 2009


You tried to contact us?  I must have missed that email, sorry.

We set the MTU to 1280 near the server.  We've not had any reported
MTU problems (knock on wood), to the best of my knowledge.

FWIW:  http://ispcolumn.isoc.org/2009-01/mtu6.html

2009/2/2 Ricardo Patara <patara at lacnic.net>:
> Hi,
> Just wondering if some of you are using this technique to avoid problems
> from someone else accessing your website, for instance.
>
> We have our site with ipv6 for a while now, and have received complaints and
> we had opportunity to face the same problem several times.
>
> This happens when trying to access the site via a tunnel connection. The
> browser simply gives a timeout.
> We think this is related to pmtu and sites filtering icmp6.
>
> One of the solutions was to lower down the MTU at the site server.
> The question is, if this is the solution you did in case you also faced this
> problem.
> I tried to contact someone from google, but with no success.
>
> I mention google as we always try ipv6.google.com when having this type of
> problem just to make sure there is nothing "completely" wrong the network
> setup.
>
> thanks
> --
>  Ricardo Patara
>
>


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