MTU to CDN's

[bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:41 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 7:32 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>>> lets say i can
>>> send you a 9K packet.  If you receive that frame, and realize you need
>>> to fragment, then itâ??s your routers job to slice 9000 into 5 x 1500.
>>
>> In practice, no, because the packet you sent had the "don't fragment"
>> bit set.
>
> Which packet?  Is there a specific CDN that does this?  Iâ??d be curious to see
> data vs speculation.

Howdy,

Path MTU discovery (which sets the DF bit on TCP packets) is enabled
by default on -every- operating system that's shipped for decades now.
If you don't want it, you have to explicitly disable it. Disabling it
for any significant quantity of traffic is considered antisocial since
routers generally can't fragment in the hardware fast path.

Regards,
Bill


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