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/The Internet Protocol: IPV4 Packet Fragmentation & Reassembly
The Internet Protocol: IPV4 Packet Fragmentation & Reassembly
In this lesson, we'll study IP version 4 fragmentation and reassembly.
We'll cover the following...
Why Fragmentation?
Although IPv4 packets can be as big as 64kB, few data link layer technologies can send a 64 KB IPv4 packet inside a frame.
Furthermore, as in the figure below, if the host on the FDDI network abides by its own data link layer’s maximum packet size of ...