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case 5-3

You moved to San Diego to work with a large sport apparael company. Its network grew throuhg various corporate acquistions- it is truly a mix of media, speeds, computers, and applications. Your are not sure if this networks hosts and routers support PMTU Discovery to reduce fragements on the network. Write a brief polan definnifing how you can test this network for PMTU support.

Solution

PMTU:- Its full from is path maximum transmission unit. When a host needs to transmit data and to determine how much data it can put into each packet is called Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU). MTU dicovery can be tested by using the device tracepath or mturoute. Tracepath reports the location of a packet at each step from source to destination. Here is anexample of tracepath:-