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- From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.224415.60509@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 22:44:15 MDT
- References: <1992Nov8.203621.6902@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <1992Nov8.203621.6902@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dpayne@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dirk Payne) writes:
- > I have reviewed WATTCP, PCIP, and both CUTCP and NCSA's versions of telnet
- > but none of these implemetations handle IP fragments. In order to be a "real"
- > TCP/IP package (connected to the "real" world) fragments cannot be ejected
- > out of hand.
- >
- > Has anyone implemented IP fragment handling in any of the above mentioned
- > products? My personal favorite is WATTCP, but I would be willing to entertain
- > any PD implementation that handles frags. My only alternative is to roll my
- > own :-(.
- >
- > Please mail responses to dpay@gwl.com (preferable to dpayne@nyx.cs.du.edu).
- > If there is interest, I can post a summary.
- >
- > Thanks in advance for your help.
- >
- > --- Dirk
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- Real DOS TCP/IP packages which don't fragment reassembly, and that
- means most of them, do two things. They set the do not fragment flag in
- the TCP Options area and they set the MSS to be 534 bytes or less to let
- 99% of the long distance routers handle the frame without needing to fragment.
- This leaves UDP packets, and they should be kept short.
- As mentioned by another reader, frag reassembly is memory hungry
- and a performance limiter for reassembly busywork.
- Please note that Wollongong's TCP/IP for VMS has an old bug which
- ignores the do not frag flag in the TCP Options field, and they have a
- corrective patch.
- The only Public Domain TCP/IP packages I am aware of are PC/IP and
- NCSA Telnet. The others you mentioned are copyrighted.
- Joe D.
-