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Can the maximum ping size of 65500 bytes can be increased?

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Mar 15, 2026116358 views
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Can I override the default maximum size - of ICMP ping packets? If - then How?

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65535 bytes

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The maximum size of an IPv4 packet is 65535 bytes of which some is protocol overhead so that data must be a couple bytes less than 65535 and a ping can't be more than one IP packet, so the answer is no. Why would you want to send a larger ping?

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