Re: PMTUD for IPv4 Multicast - How?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Masataka Ohta
<mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote:
> for routers, generating ICMP PTB is as burdensome
> as generating fragments?

No, it isn't.

When a router fragments a packet, it has to fragment the next and the
next and the next. Maybe tens or hundreds of thousands of packets
before the end of that one user's session.

When a router generates a PTB, there is no next. PTB is a soft
failure. The origin must correct the error (by reducing packet size)
before communication can succeed.

There are potentially several orders of magnitude of difference in the
burden on the router.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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