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Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Mon, 15 February 2016 07:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?
To: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
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Joe Touch wrote:

>> QoS (not CoS but real QoS) capable routers must inspect L4.
> 
> That must be why there are QoS indicators in the L4 header.

There are not.

> Oh, wait - those are in L3 (RFC2474 and its successors).

Can you read this?

	QoS (not CoS but real QoS)

> Yes, layering is a difficult concept.

Layering is trivially easy. If you think it difficult,
that is your problem.

						Masataka Ohta

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