Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: fragmentation code experiment | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 1999 00:50:05 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 2) modern networks almost never produce out-of-order fragments for packets > that are eventually accepted (this is a premise--needs to be tested).
NFS produces zillions of them
> 3) workstations and server that do no fragment reassembly or at least no > out-of-order fragment reassembly would have simpler (and > better-performing) network code.
Nope, its not on the fast path
> 4) if fragment reassembly (out-of-order or not) needs to be done, it > should be done by border routers (where people are increasingly willing to > do computationally intensive stuff like filter and reassemble fragments).
We support this for internet stuff. However most fragmented packets are local
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