OT [LINK] RFI: Packet

[Saliya Wimalaratne]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Rankine, Alastair J (Alastair) wrote:

> (Off-topic but fun)
> 
> > That's not TCP's fault.  Far too many network drop packets 
> > without sending an ICMP error packet.  In that case what can 
> > the sender do but wait?  The usual culprit for this behaviour 
> > are network engineers who use static routes in preference to 
> > a routing protocol.
> 
> Care to elaborate on this? Are you talking about the router sending an
> ICMP Source Quench as a result of congestion? If so, why would it care
> whether or not the route was statically configured or not?

I'd imagine that that it's (IME, the most common problem lately)
packet-too-big, but blanket-ICMP-disabled-at-router block. This is 
exacerbated by certain types of DSL (not pointing any fingers :) 

> Or are you talking about misconfigured (statically configured) routing
> tables, and the router not being able to send the TTL-expired or Host
> unreachable ICMP message?

Unlikely that ICMP would be routed differently to everything else, 
don't you think ? 

Regards,

Saliya