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Excessive fragmentation and reassembly causes additional network load due to more packets being transmitted. It also causes additional CPU load on systems that are required to fragment and reassemble packets. In addition, the loss of one fragment causes the retransmission of the whole packet. So in case of network instability, additional load is added to an already unstable network connection.
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Connectivity Problems
If there are intermediate systems between two communication partners that have smaller MTUs than the two communication partners, data transmission may fail, for example in the following cases:
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