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- From: davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
- Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:20:21 GMT
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- Stephen C. Trier (trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu) wrote:
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- > In the real world, fragments are not terribly important. TCP intentionally
- > avoids fragmenting data. The only protocol I know of that intentionally
- > sends fragments is NFS, which is supported by none of the packages you named.
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- try ftping from Mac's on appletalk talking MacTCP via a pcrouter - or using
- slip , both of these result in fragmentation. Personally I'll be very
- happy when NCSA telnet supports fragments ...
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- | o John Davis davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz phone NZ+3642-421 o |
- | o (Depart)mental Programmer,Chem Dept, Univ of Canterbury, Chch, NZ o |
- | o "I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them" - Isaac Asimov o |
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