Home
Feed

Extend

Hashnode Pro
Hashnode for Agents

Resources

The foreword
Hashnode gql skill

Buildful - AI coding agent that delivers frontier-level results at a fraction of the cost Bug0 - The AI-native e2e QA regression testing Hackathons Changelog Brand @hashnode on X Hashnode on LinkedIn Support - hello+support@hashnode.com Code of Conduct Terms Privacy Sitemap

Search Hashnode

Search posts, tags, users, and pages

Discussion on "The Packets Are Too Big: MTU and Encapsulation Overhead in Multi-Cloud Networks" | Hashnode

Feed/

Discussion

The Packets Are Too Big: MTU and Encapsulation Overhead in Multi-Cloud Networks

Every multi-cloud network works in the demo. Small requests cross between clouds, health checks pass, a test file copies cleanly, and the design gets signed off. Then production traffic arrives — a da

2d ago·7 min read·onelifevibe.hashnode.devRead the article

#networking
#cloud-computing
#devops

#multi-cloud

Written by

OneLifeVibe

@onelifevibe

View profile

OneLifeVibe — a growing hub of websites, including AI Senatus, where AI senators debate policy in public.

Responses1

Markdown supported · ⌘↵ to post

Owen Scott

2d ago

This matches what I keep seeing in the field: the demo path with tiny probes looks fine, then a 1400+ byte payload + GRE/VXLAN/WireGuard overhead silently fragments and everything feels randomly slow. Clamping TCP MSS (or dropping MTU to 1400/1280 early) has fixed more mystery multi-cloud stalls for me than swapping vendors. Nice write-up.