Tag: #mtu
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 1 posts
ping works but only large requests hang — dissecting MTU, MSS and the PMTUD blackhole
When small requests go through fine but only large responses stall halfway, it is almost always a path MTU problem. TCP advertises MSS based on the interface MTU, and when a narrower segment sits somewhere along the path
2026-07-26 · 14 min read #network#mtu#tcp#vpn#kubernetes