IP Fragmentation - Not reliable over the Internet?

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Tue Aug 27 11:24:36 UTC 2013


On (2013-08-27 10:45 +0200), Emile Aben wrote:

> > 224 vantage points, 10 failed.
> 
> 48 byte ping:    42 out of 3406 vantage points fail (1.0%)
> 1473 byte ping: 180 out of 3540 vantage points fail (5.1%)

Nice, it's starting to almost sound like data rather than anecdote, both
tests implicate 4<5% having fragmentation issues.

Much larger number than I intuitively had in mind.

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