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second or further segment has a lower MTU the switch that is between will just silently drop the packet without reporting back any ICMP (because only layer 3 hops can generate ICMP "packet too big"). So, in this case admins should update the MTU for each outgoing L3 interface to the minimum MTU of the layer 2 segments used until the next L3 hop.
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If the path MTU changes after the connection is set up and becomes lower than the previously determined path MTU, the first large packet will cause an ICMP error and the new, lower path MTU will be found. If the path changes and the new path MTU is larger, the source will not learn about the
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