Differences for page Path MTU

Current version compared with version Sun Sep 19 16:35:09 GMT 2004

...
  The value of the littlest [MTU] in a given path.
  
+ 
  Given the following path between two hosts A and B:
  
+ 
   HOST A ----- 1500 ------ GATEWAY1 ------- 500 -------- HOST B
  
+ 
  As you can see in the path between the host A and the host B there are two segments,
  the first with [MTU] 1500, the second with [MTU] 500. The [Path MTU] is the minimum
  value of all the MTU presents in the path, so it's 500 in this case.
...
  
  
  The [Path MTU] is importante because in order to avoid fragmentation modern operating
- systems try to discover the [Path MTU] (using an algorithm called [Path MTU discovery]
+ systems try to discover the [Path MTU] (using an algorithm called [Path MTU discovery])
  in order to send to a given destination only packets that will not get fragmented.

The following is the old page content