Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:54:21 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about mtu and fragment offset Message-ID: <20011022225420.E364@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011019134824.A9949@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:48:24PM %2B0100 References: <20011019134824.A9949@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:48:24PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
>
> This is for a class project :-)
>
> If the mtu of a gateway is 1500, does that mean all fragments larger
> than this will be broken into packets of 1500 (20 header, 1480 data) or
> packets of 1496 (20 header, 1476 data) since the fragment offset must be
> even multiples of 8?
1500. 1480 is a multiple of 8 last time I checked.
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