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Reducing fragmentation of packets in a networking environment

  • US 9,118,596 B2
  • Filed: 02/28/2013
  • Issued: 08/25/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • by computer program instructions on a computing device, wherein the computing device is a hypervisor in a virtualized computing environment;

    receiving a packet prepared for transmission over a communication link to a network, wherein data values to be added by the computing device are absent from the prepared packet;

    determining whether to transmit the received packet over the communication link based on whether a size of the received packet exceeds a threshold, wherein the threshold accounts for the data values to be added by the computing device in view of a maximum packet size for packets prepared for transmission to the network; and

    in response to determining that the size of the received packet exceeds the threshold, determining not to send the received packet over the communication link including generating a simulated error condition and sending an error message to a preparer of the received packet, the error message adapted to automatically cause the preparer to reformat payload data of the packet into a smaller-sized packet and then send the smaller-sized packet to the computing device for transmission to the network.

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