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Subject: Re: 2.4.20 Broken Path MTU Discovery?
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 06:45, Carlos Velasco wrote:
> Also, it is not so easy to send spoofed icmps as the icmp must contain the original packet with high len that caused the icmp.

Anyone sitting between the two machines may do the
spoofing.

Do you trust every single router between your system
and the machine you are accessing out on the web?