IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

• Subject: IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?
• From: tore at fud.no (Tore Anderson)
• Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:05:14 +0200
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* Owen DeLong

> On Aug 27, 2013, at 07:33 , Valdis.Kletnieks at 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

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