On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected]> wrote: >> It would be interesting to see the reall world case where >> fragmentation can do better or as good (either in goodput or >> performance), but I'm doubtful that exists. > > One of the applications I am referring to works over space links where there > are long delays, but no congestion and hence little/no IP packet/fragment > loss. > This is a case of a long, fat network (LFN) and because there is significant > delay > (reliable) UDP is used instead of TCP.
Okay, that could be one use case. But then I have to ask: why not just crank up MTUs to a high number to eliminate fragmentation overhead? Tom > > Thanks - Fred _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
