> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:22 AM, Ole Troan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 30 Nov 2018, at 16:49, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 1) the lower down the fragmentation occurs, the less overhead is needed 
>> (i.e., when performance is an issue, it’s even more important to fragment as 
>> low as possible)
> 
> That sounds like an unfounded myth. 
> I would think it highly dependent on implementation.  

Reality:

- every layer down you do it avoids a layer of header in-between *at every 
fragment*
ie., IP fragments have only ONE UDP header and ONE application header, but 
app-fragments have multiples of both.

Do the math.

Joe
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