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path discovery
Authored by: macubergeek on Oct 17, '01 05:46:25AM

Networked devices do what's called "mtu path discovery", that is they send out progressively larger icmp or ping packets to discover the maximum packet size they can get away with in communicating with other networked devices. What Apple is tacitly admitting is that Macos X 10.1 dosn't do this path discovery properly. This is quite surprising since they do use the BSD tcp/ip stack and I believe this path discovery is really basic to that.....



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