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Re: IP Fragmentation
From: Fernando Gont <fernando () gont com ar>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:27:34 -0300
At 07:07 p.m. 20/08/2008, Sam Stickland wrote:
Yet all OSes have it enabled and there is no fallback to fragmentation in PMTUD: if your system doesn't get the ICMP messages, your session is dead in the water.Windows Vista/2007 has black hole detection enabled by default. It's not massively elegant, but it will keep sessions up (falls back to 536 byte MTU).http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925280
IPv4 minimum MTU is 68 bytes, not 536. 536 is the minimum fragment re-assembly buffer size. Falling back to 536-byte packets does not guarantee that sessions will be kept up.
Kind regards, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: fernando () gont com ar || fgont () acm org PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1
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