On Aug 27, 2013, at 07:33 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:34:57 -0700, Owen DeLong said: >> That's a lot of questions he didn't ask. > > This isn't your first rodeo. You should know by now that the question > actually asked, the question *meant* to be asked, and the question that > actually needed answering are often 3 different things. > >> If I send a packet out as a legitimate series of fragments, what is the >> chance >> that they will get dropped somewhere in the middle of the path between the >> emitting host and the receiving host? > >> To my thinking, the answer to that question is basically "pretty close to 0 >> and >> if that changes in the core, very bad things will happen." > > Saku Ytti and Emile Aben have numbers that say otherwise. And there must > be a significantly bigger percentage of failures than "pretty close to 0", > or Path MTU Discovery wouldn't have a reputation of being next to useless.
No, their numbers describe what happens to single packets of differing sizes. Nothing they did describes results of actually fragmented packets. Owen