From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 22:54:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9B937B401 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.137.102.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.137.102]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28950; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9N5sLA02366; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:54:21 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about mtu and fragment offset Message-ID: <20011022225420.E364@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011019134824.A9949@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message