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On Sunday 01 Sep 2013 17:17:37 Grant wrote: |
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> OK, does PMTUD lower the outgoing packet size on my system due to the |
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> hotel router's lower MTU or does the hotel router itself fragment my |
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> 1500 byte packets in order to send them out? Just curious. |
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If you are sending out packets with the DF bit set no fragmentation will take |
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place - the packet is dropped and an appropriate message is returned to |
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sender. Otherwise the router will fragment them and send them on to the |
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recipient address. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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