I think we’re generally in agreement. My view is that fragmentation is currently a necessary evil. Evil that should be avoided where possible, but necessary that MUST be supported.
Joe — Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist www.strayalpha.com > On Dec 7, 2021, at 3:46 PM, Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right, I understand this. I said *it could8 use larger headers. So sounds > like we are in agremement. That is, if we can't agree on 1400 because > protocols have been spec'ed for smaller ones, that is where we are headed. In > the opposite direction we wantn to go. > > Hence, there is no way to technically fix this. And fragmentation is *not the > solution*. It will cause more packet loss and time-out buffers in receivers. > > But what apps can do, and I know many that do is to send a packet train of > MTU sized packets with FEC. So when there is loss, the receiver can build the > packets via erasure codes. > > Dino
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