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Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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Path MTU<br />

• Each link in path from source to destination can have a different MTU<br />

• to avoid fragmentation you have to find the minimum of these<br />

• RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery[2] uses:<br />

• “good” guesses (i.e., likely values)<br />

• By setting Don’t Fragment (DF) bit in IP datagram ⇒ change size while you get ICMP<br />

messages saying “Destination Unreachable” with a code saying fragmentation needed<br />

Maguire Path MTU 3: 9 of 33<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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