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Explain need of fragmentation and field related to fragmentation in IP datagram.
written 9.4 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 70k modified 3.8 years ago by gravatar for sagarkolekar sagarkolekar ★ 11k
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written 9.4 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 70k

Fragmentation:

  • In order to make the IP protocol independent of the physical network, the designers decided to make the maximum length of the IP datagram equal to 65,535 bytes.
  • This makes transmission more efficient if we use a protocol with a Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) of this size. However, for …

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