Explain fragmentation and the fields related to the fragmentation in the IP datagram.

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i. 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.

ii. This makes transmission more efficient if we use a protocol with an MTU of this size. However, for other physical …

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