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- From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
- Message-ID: <9211191653.AA01396@ftp.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:53:11 GMT
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- 'Tis not my intent to jump on you, Erick, but I don't believe this is true
- either.
-
- For those interested, a good way to easily and reliably receive a fragment
- for testing your code is to send a MTU sized ICMP echo request, the reply
- will have to be fragmented if it bounces off of a properly implemented
- system.
-
- ICMP Echo Reply is supposed to be almost exactly the same header and data
- as found in the Echo Request (except for reversing the addresses and any
- source routes, and using the receiving system's default TTL). Even if the
- IP header contained a Record Route option, the sender had to set an initial
- allocation and the receiver won't change the header length. So I don't see
- why the reply would need to be fragmented.
-
- I first tested IP fragmentation by increasing the PCs MTU to above the
- attached network's, and sending big UDP datagrams from a Unix box. We
- now test it with two PCs on different large MTU networks (e.g. 802.5)
- talking across an intermediate Ethernet.
-
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