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Yeah, what's with that? I looked into enabling jumbo frames on my home network (just for fun, I don't really need it) and it seemed horrendous as those packets

Yeah, what's with that? I looked into enabling jumbo frames on my home network (just for fun, I don't really need it) and it seemed horrendous as those packets could end up on the internet and probably wouldn't work.

WanderPanda 3y ago
Shouldn‘t the NAT take care of the outgoing frames as it is operating on the tcp/udp level?
- dale_glass 3y ago
  No. NAT does Network Address Translation. It just changes addresses in packets. The packets are still whatever size they are. There's fragmentation, but that's separate from NAT and often broken.
darkr 3y ago
Your local router, if correctly configured should do fragmentation. But in 95% of use cases, jumbo frames aren’t worth the hassle.
- tsimionescu 3y ago
  Not for IPv6. And for IPv4, I believe few routers actually handle IP fragmentation properly or at all (which is why this was removed from IPv6).
NovemberWhiskey 3y ago
This is what Path MTU Discovery is for, in principle, or what MSS clamping at your router will do.