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Subject: Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:24:18PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote:
> Er, how is it possible to send a UDP packet > 65535?  Last time I looked
> it was a 16-bit field.

This is explained in section 4. of RFC 2675, "IPv6 Jumbograms",

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2675.txt

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