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		luma on Feb 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet Over-sized packets can (and generally will) be fragmented by your router. It shouldn't be dropped unless you've intentionally set DNF.

benjojo12 on Feb 19, 2020 | [–]

Fragments are very hit or miss on the internet, https://blog.cloudflare.com/ip-fragmentation-is-broken/

zajio1am on Feb 19, 2020 | | [–]

AFAIK, most OSes today set DNF by default.

duxup on Feb 19, 2020 | [–]

They will fragment them but many times you will see performance or other misc issues ... eventually.

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