[165365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Aug 31 07:27:39 2013
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:09:18 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Emile Aben <emile.aben@ripe.net>
In-Reply-To: <5221B135.9010707@ripe.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> i wonder if this is correlated with the high number of probes being
>>> behind nats.
>
> Maybe this provides a bit of insight:
> From a test last week from all RIPE Atlas probes to a single "known
> good" MTU 1500 host I compared probes where I had both a ping test with
> ipv4.len 1020 and ipv4.len 1502.
> behind NAT probes: 12% 1020 bytes ping worked while 1502 failed
> non-NATted probes: 6% ""
this needs publication on your adventure game of a web site, please. it
will seriously 'inform' some discussion going back and forth on ietf
lists.
randy
