Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > I would be thrilled if we spent some time thinking about ICMP in > > an architectural way - however beautiful it was before ICMP > > black holing, what we have now isn't consistently usable today. > > We're spending time on point solutions (Matt Mathis on non-ICMP > > path MTU discovery as one example), but is this the best we can > > do? > > I don't think we're likely to be able to dispense with ICMP. Maybe we > can find more ways to make it more trustworthy. Or maybe we just need > to discourage people from filtering it. I don't understand why this is even a point of discussion. Next you hear some people will like to globally filter TCP RST - will you rewrite TCP to work without that? Regards, -is
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