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- From: rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens)
- Subject: Re: Does IP fragment broad/multicasts
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.205542.24508@noao.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:55:42 GMT
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- >We've been having an argument here concerning whether or not IP
- >fragments broadcast and multicast packets.
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- All the BSD kernel code that I've seen refuses to fragment a broadcast
- packet. You get EMSGSIZE instead. I don't know about multicasting.
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- Rich Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu)
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