Re: Creating fragmentation using sockets (on ethernet)

On Mar 26, 12:14 am, pk...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Patrick Klos) wrote:
In article <ae18d296-bbd2-4d1c-b332-3a9fc2ad6...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

ian...@xxxxxxxxx <ian...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

Packets which are bigger than 1500 (which is the default MTU for
ethernet) should cause
fragmentation (assuming that the machine supports it).

I want to test fragmentation issues on some system.

- Can anybody give some advice/pointers for creating a small "c"
programs using sockets API
which will cause fragmentation ?

You must be asking about IP fragmentation since ethernet doesn't have
such a notion.

The easiest way to generate fragmented IP packets is to use UDP to send
large datagrams. Simply open a SOCK_DGRAM socket and use sendto() to
send datagrams larger than 1500 bytes (well, technically, anything above
1472 bytes in a UDP datagram should do the job).

Or, if you don't want to write a program, just use ping:

ping -s 32768 10.0.0.23

Patrick
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And make sure Jumbo packets are switched OFF.
.

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