On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:34:57 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > That's a lot of questions he didn't ask.
This isn't your first rodeo. You should know by now that the question actually asked, the question *meant* to be asked, and the question that actually needed answering are often 3 different things. > If I send a packet out as a legitimate series of fragments, what is the chance > that they will get dropped somewhere in the middle of the path between the > emitting host and the receiving host? > To my thinking, the answer to that question is basically "pretty close to 0 > and > if that changes in the core, very bad things will happen." Saku Ytti and Emile Aben have numbers that say otherwise. And there must be a significantly bigger percentage of failures than "pretty close to 0", or Path MTU Discovery wouldn't have a reputation of being next to useless.
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