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by tamsaraas
1403 days ago
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Is the post joke? Are there any network technical who can explain that the packet can have different size and modified by different routers inside chain of path from source to destination? I mean some kind of absurd topic. And everyone instead of reading ethernet standard and teaching materials about this OSI level, start to debate about this thing. |
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if you had a router between you and the webserver you're accessing and it's MTU is 100 bytes then the largest packet getting through it is 100 bytes. The router will break larger packets into max 100 byte packets and send them through.
"This process is called fragmentation. Fragmented packets are reassembled once they reach their destination."
The default MTU for routers is 1500 bytes which is probably the 14-15kb limit was picked.
/it's been 20 years since i was really into networks so maybe things have changed with the default MTU...