Oops, I forgot the units for fragment-offset field and total<br>length. Yes, whatever you have mentioned should be<br>possible.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeno Jeno</b> <
<a href="mailto:su.jeno@gmail.com">su.jeno@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>The fragment-offset field is just 13-bits. So you cannot
<br>specify a fragment offset of ~64k.</div><div><span class="q" id="q_10b41caf8f49cc4f_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fernando Gont</b> <<a href="mailto:fernando@gont.com.ar" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
fernando@gont.com.ar</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Folks,<br><br>I was going through the IP specs, and there was a point on which
<br>there seems to be some ambiguity (or, well, at least it's not that<br>clear to me). I wonder what your interpretation is.<br><br>Is the maximum "legal" IP payload defined by "Total_Length -<br>IP_Header" (
i.e., around 65K), or should it be considered to be the<br>maximum payload that can be encapsulated, by using the "trick"<br>described bellow? (i.e., which would then result in a maximum payload<br>size of around 128K)
<br><br>(The "trick" would be to send a ~65K fragment with the MF bit set,<br>followed by a second 65K fragment with an offset of ~65K)<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>--<br>Fernando Gont<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:fernando@gont.com.ar" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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