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hermitdev | 2 months ago

> to 4 GB packets

Heh. Anyone remember the ping of death[0]? A lot (most?) of computers on the early internet didn't properly handle large packets, _especially_ from ICMP pings. Once upon a time, you could send a single ping w/ a packet size of 65536 and crash the remote.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death

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