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- From: gts@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (Greg Small)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 00:40:12 GMT
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- In Message 9 Nov 92 20:17:51 Erick Engelke <utcsri!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watserv1!demorgan.uwaterloo.ca!erick@uunet.uu.net> writes:
- >A common misconception is that we will get fragmented packets from outside
- >our LAN, such as gateways through slower media. But it is the gateway's
- >responsibility to reassemble the frags before putting the data onto the LAN
- >at the other end. That's why people using all these freeware TCPs didn't
- >know they didn't have frag support.
-
- Whoops :-! It certainly is a common misconception of mine ;-).
- Gateways fragment but do not reassemble, the ultimate destination host must
- do so, hence the host requirement for reassembly (don't have the RFCs handy
- but check Comer, vol I, 2ed, "7.7.5 Reassembly of Fragments", pp 98).
-
- Greg Small 1-510-642-5979
- Personal Computer Networking & Communications gts@violet.Berkeley.EDU
- Workstation Software Support Group, IST/WSS 216 Evans Hall
- University of California, Berkeley, Ca 94720 1-510-643-5385 (Fax)
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