VMware system will not send UDP packets smaller than 12 bytes
Issue
- Small UDP packets are not being sent between VMware systems
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
- VMware ESXi 5.0 update 2
- vmxnet3 NIC driver
- UDP traffic with packets smaller than 12 bytes
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