No real comment to add.. just a FYI..
Wilfried Mestdagh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To see the largest possible packet size you can do following. Choose
> some IP address of your ISP provider instead of this and try. You can
>
> C:\>ping -l 1473 -f 195.130.132.82
>
> Pinging 195.130.132.82 with 1473 bytes of data:
>
> Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set.
> As you see, my largest possible packet size is 1472. Adding 28 bytes of
> ICMP and IP headers I see my MTU is 1500. I am pretty sure you will have
> exact same result.
First time I've heard about ping's -l option, so I had to try it.
Here, Win XP SP2.. When I ping my isp's smtp server with a -l 1472, it
goes through just fine. But if I ping with anything higher, the request
times out.
To make sure it wasn't just the connection between me and my ISP's
machine, I did a 'ping -l 1473 www.google.com' .. Same thing.
C:\>ping -l 1473 www.google.com
Pinging www.l.google.com [64.233.167.99] with 1473 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Just an interesting side note :)
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