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kridsana
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Dec 26, 2012

How to clear Don't Fragment (DF) bit

there is some virtual server that have a problem that     packet segment lost when MTU = 1500     so i want to clear DF bit to fix this problem , and how to clear it?     than...
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nitass
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Jan 08, 2013
when pmtu is disabled, bigip does not know what smallest mtu size is. so, bigip won't fragment packet when sending out and will receive icmp unreachable/fragmentation needed packet. this will increase number of packets sending back and forth in the network.