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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:50:22 -0700
From:      Mark Atkinson <atkin901@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "ping" with packets larger then 25152 bytes fails.
Message-ID:  <g5l8sf$rid$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <5D49E7A8952DC44FB38C38FA0D758EAD196E6F@mtlexch01.mtl.com>

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Eitan Shefi wrote:
> When I run "ping" between 2 identical FreeBSD hosts, with packets larger
> then 25152 bytes, "ping" fails.
>  
> Does someone has an idea what might cause this failure ?[

My first guess is you're probably hitting the fragment limit for maximum
fragments per packet.  Which is like 16/packet by default.

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Mark Atkinson
atkin901@yahoo.com
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