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Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:33:21 -0400
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:34:57 -0700, Owen DeLong said:
That's a lot of questions he didn't ask.
This isn't your first rodeo. You should know by now that the question actually asked, the question *meant* to be asked, and the question that actually needed answering are often 3 different things.
If I send a packet out as a legitimate series of fragments, what is the chance that they will get dropped somewhere in the middle of the path between the emitting host and the receiving host?
To my thinking, the answer to that question is basically "pretty close to 0 and if that changes in the core, very bad things will happen."
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.
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- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Emile Aben (Aug 28)
- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Owen DeLong (Aug 28)
- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Emile Aben (Aug 29)
- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Owen DeLong (Aug 27)
- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 26)
- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Emile Aben (Aug 27)
- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Saku Ytti (Aug 27)
- Re: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet? Leo Bicknell (Aug 27)