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What happens if a router

aglowack
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

receives a packet larger than the defined MTU size and has the df (don't fragment) bit set to true? Will the router drop the packet?

Thanks

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Harold Ritter
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Spotlight

The packet is dropped and an ICMP destination unreachable (type 3) fragmentation needed and don't FDF was set (code 4) is sent back to the source IP address.

Regards,
Harold Ritter, CCIE #4168 (EI, SP)