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- From: johnson@TIGGER.JVNC.NET ("Steven L. Johnson")
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Fragmented IP packets: any PD implementations?
- Message-ID: <199211130043.AA18715@tigger.jvnc.net>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 00:43:37 GMT
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- Stephen C. Trier writes:
- >
- > In article <BxH4xy.Euu@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
- > >try ftping from Mac's on appletalk talking MacTCP via a pcrouter - or using
- > >slip , both of these result in fragmentation.
- >
- > I've been fortunate enough to avoid the former, and the latter is a myth.
- > SLIP causes fragments on TCP connections only if the SLIP connection is
- > poorly configured.
-
- Unless you include any SLIP configuration with an MTU < 576 as
- poorly configured, how does a host guarantee that a TCP datagram
- does not fragment on an intermediary SLIP hop? My understanding
- is that probes that determine minimum MTU end to end are not
- a host requirement.
-
- -Steve
-