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You'll get fragmentation on every segment over 1460 bytes, which would be the majority of datagrams for a large file upload like pictures or movies. Only way to work around this is to run jumbo frames from L4 to L7. You can't magically encapsulate IP in IP at 1460 segments without fragmenting.

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