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Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?


From: Tore Anderson <tore () fud no>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:05:14 +0200

* Owen DeLong

On Aug 27, 2013, at 07:33 , Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

Saku Ytti and Emile Aben have numbers that say otherwise.  And there must
be a significantly bigger percentage of failures than "pretty close to 0",
or Path MTU Discovery wouldn't have a reputation of being next to useless.

No, their numbers describe what happens to single packets of differing sizes.

Nothing they did describes results of actually fragmented packets.

Yes, it did.

Hint: 1473 + 8 + 20

Tore


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