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- From: CBA012@nvl1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
- Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-99.921112091212.288@nvl1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 08:46:28 GMT
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- > 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.
- >
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- Is this really true? In "Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. II", Comer and
- Stevens write: "Furthermore, because reassembly only happens for datagrams
- destined for the local machine and not for transit traffic, gateways do not
- need to reassemble datagrams as fast as they need to route them."
- So I always believed that a datagram, once fragmented, doesn't get reassembled
- before it reaches its final destination and with CUTCP, the TCP MSS must be
- adjusted to avoid fragments.
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- >
- > Erick
- > --
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Erick Engelke WATTCP Architect
- > erick@development.uwaterloo.ca TCP/IP was easy but i still can't work VI
- >
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