[Techtalk] ping -s and mtu size

[Carla Schroder]

hey all,

Is the ping -s command something that is useful in the real world? The only 
times I've heard of MTU size problems was when a game dev thought he could 
use 10,000 byte packets or something equally nuts, and of course TCP broke 
them up into smaller fragments, which horked game performance.

Suppose you're running ping -s and you carefully increase the size until you 
start seeing dropped packets. Then what? how do you figure out what is 
causing the problem?

Carla
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