[ovirt-users] Users Digest, Vol 71, Issue 37

[Fabrice Bacchella]

> Le 8 août 2017 à 14:53, Moacir Ferreira <moacirferreira at hotmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> But if you receive a 9000 MTU frame on an "input" interface that results sending it out on an interface of a 1500 MTU, then if you set DF bit the frame will just be dropped by the router.

The frame will be dropped and the router will send an ICMP message "packet to big" to the sender, it's network stack will received that, learn that the PMTU is lower and try with smaller fragment, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_MTU_Discovery.

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