Minor spelling corrections in docs
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@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ if a node receives a packet that is bigger than the next MTU, it is
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required to drop the packet and send back an ICMP 3,4 packet which
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informs the sending node of the next hop MTU (RFC 1191). In theory,
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these ICMP packets should have all the reverse NAT and so forth
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applied, to make it all the way back to the sender. In practise this
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applied, to make it all the way back to the sender. In practice, this
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does often work, but in some cases all ICMP are sometimes blocked,
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often by idiots who don't understand that ICMP is really the error
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channel of all network traffic.
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@@ -187,16 +187,16 @@ If weave determines that fragmentation is reliable then when weave
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sniffs large packets (i.e. packets larger than the MTU and thus don't
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have DF set) then weave will encapsulate these packets as necessary
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and similarly send them out as-is, without DF set, trusting to the
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network to do all necessary fragementation and reassembly.
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network to do all necessary fragmentation and reassembly.
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However, if weave determines that fragementation is not reliable
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However, if weave determines that fragmentation is not reliable
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between any two peers then it will manually fragment larger packets
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correctly according to the IP spec, and will then send them between
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weave peers with the DF flag set (i.e. the fragmentation will ensure
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that the encapsulatated traffic will not be greater than the PMTU
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that the encapsulated traffic will not be greater than the PMTU
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between weave peers). Because the fragmentation is done according to
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the IP spec, we don't need to do reassembly ourselves - on the
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receiving weave, we jus inject all the fragments and rely on the
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receiving weave, we just inject all the fragments and rely on the
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stack to do reassembly.
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Sometimes PMTU discovery doesn't work as ICMP packets sometimes get
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