[165226] in North American Network Operators' Group
IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Palmer)
Mon Aug 26 20:02:00 2013
From: Christopher Palmer <Christopher.Palmer@microsoft.com>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:01:45 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I am trolling for information/community wisdom.=20
What is the probability that a random path between two Internet hosts will =
traverse a middlebox that drops or otherwise barfs on fragmented IPv4 packe=
ts?
If anyone has any data or anecdotes, please feel free to send an off-list e=
mail or whatever.=20
Thanks!
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Christopher.Palmer@microsoft.com=20
Program Manager
Windows Networking Core - Client Technologies
