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> > > A few years back I noted some 512-536 MTU links in ASIA. I've been doing > some testing and can't seem to find them anymore. Is is safe to assume > that 99.9% of the Internet is running on 1500 MTU or higher these days? define safe. > I know some people artificially set their end point MTU a bit lower > (like 1400) to deal with things like having their traffic encapsulated > by GRE or IPSec. With this in mind, would we be safe to flag/drop/what > ever all fragments smaller than 1200 bytes that are not last fragments > (i.e., more fragments is still set)? Does anyone maintain, or is aware, > of links that would not meet this 1200 MTU? now that you mention it... :) btw, what will your IDS/firewall do when presented w/ a 9k mtu? > > Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated, > C > >
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