[165281] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Wed Aug 28 02:05:34 2013
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:05:14 +0200
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <02E84CD3-B3E6-4990-8748-8339EA7C27B0@delong.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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* 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
