Hi, On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 05:12:43PM -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > You're better off staying within the limits of what the intermediate gear > will support. Fragmentation and re-assembly if you expect to fill a 16000 > byte frame (or fill one enough to cause fragmentation as the frame > crosses the Ciena gear) could impose a significant performance penalty.
With "usual" gear there won't be fragmentation if an intermediate L2 device
cannot handle the MTU that both endpoints assume to be possible - just
frame drops.
Which the original poster already noticed ("pings over 9584 are lost")...
gert
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