IESG Advice from Experience with Path MTU Discovery
RFC 1435, “IESG Advice from Experience with Path MTU Discovery”, is an Informational document published in March 1993 by S. Knowles. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
In the course of reviewing the MTU Discovery protocol for possible elevation to Draft Standard, a specific operational problem was uncovered. The problem results from the optional suppression of ICMP messages implemented in some routers. This memo outlines a modification to this practice to allow the correct functioning of MTU Discovery. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
The canonical text of RFC 1435 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in TXT,HTML.
- RFC 1434 Data Link Switching: Switch-to-Switch Protocol
- RFC 1436 The Internet Gopher Protocol
- RFC 1433 Directed ARP
- RFC 1437 The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium
- RFC 1432 Recent Internet Books
- RFC 1438 Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom
- RFC 1431 DUA Metrics (OSI-DS 33 )
- RFC 1439 The Uniqueness of Unique Identifiers