[c-nsp] jumbo frames

[grunt]

"-s" sets packet size on Linux also, however "-f" sets Flood
-M hint
              Select Path MTU Discovery strategy.  hint may be either do 
(prohibit fragmentation, even local one), want (do  PMTU  dis-
              covery, fragment locally when packet size is large), or 
dont (do not set DF flag).



Robert E.Seastrom wrote:

>Alex Rubenstein <alex at nac.net> writes:
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>>On windows, ping -l 9000 -f a.b.c.d
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>>-l 9000 says "9000 byte packet"
>>-f says "Set Don't Frag"
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>It's worth emphasizing what Alex implied by saying "on windows" - the
>flag set for ping is highly non-standard and a look at the man page is
>suggested.  On BSD but not on Solaris, packet size is set with "-s".
>Dunno about Linux.
>
>                                        ---rob
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