In a message written on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:43:44PM +0530, Glen Kent wrote: > Do transit routers in the wild actually get to do IP fragmentation > these days? I was wondering if routers actually do it or not, because > the source usually discovers the path MTU and sends its data with the > least supported MTU. Is this true?
Yes.
A GigE jumbo frames host (9120) to a standard POS interface (4420)
to a DS3 customer (1500) happens, and the GigE->POS and POS->DS3
routers must both do fragmentation.
> I would wager that the vendors and operators would want to avoid IP
> fragmentation since thats usually done in SW (unless you've got a very
> powerful ASIC or your box is NP based).
As far as I know the "big" routers all do it in hardware with no real
performance penality; but I haven't studied in detail.
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