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Re: [Int-area] WG Adoption Call: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Fri, 27 July 2018 08:21 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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Subject: Re: [Int-area] WG Adoption Call: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Tom Herbert wrote:

> I don't understand what would be platform specific. Can you elaborate?

On one platform iperf3 sends MTU minus header sized UDP packet, without IP 
fragmentation (so ~1400 bytes UDP payload). On the other platform iperf3 
sends 8k UDP packets, fragmented by the IP stack if MTU is less than 8k.

I have no idea if this is an iperf3 version difference or platform 
specific, but this is what I see in my tcpdump:s.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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