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MTU mismatch on one link



On 08/31/12?09:30?-0400, Tom Taylor wrote:
>Has anyone run into a situation where the MTU at one end of a link 
>was configured differently from the MTU at the other end? How did you 
>catch it?
>
>In general, do you see any need for a debugging tool to be 
>standardized to find such mismatches?

Performing a ping with a large packet size '-s', and/or with packet
fragmentation turned off '-M do' have been our primary tools for finding
MTU (layer 2 and layer 3) mismatches.

-- 
Dan White