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Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

2016-02-09 14:25:15


On 2/8/2016 2:44 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
I would note that tunnel mechanisms either need a very good path "size"
reporting mechanism or a way to fragment.

If you don't have a way to fragment, you end up with a hard limit on the
amount of tunneling and tunnel overhead. Otherwise, at some point, you
end up with a "size" of zero.

Joe