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Subject: Re: "ping" with packets larger then 25152 bytes fails.
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Eitan Shefi wrote:
> When I run "ping" between 2 identical FreeBSD hosts, with packets larger
> then 25152 bytes, "ping" fails.
>  
> Does someone has an idea what might cause this failure ?[

My first guess is you're probably hitting the fragment limit for maximum
fragments per packet.  Which is like 16/packet by default.

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