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Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 09 July 2013 21:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function
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On Jul 9, 2013, at 22:50, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/07/2013 05:28, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> ...
>>> But for one problem: adaptation layer fragmentation is
>>> *transparent*, so there is no way for an application
>>> to do the equivalent of PMTUD to avoid/minimize adaptation
>>> layer fragmentation.
>> 
>> Good point.
> 
> And you can't get round it.

(I don't know if you mean that the way I read it, but:)
Yes, I'm trying to do ALFI because I think we do need a way to get around this lack of information.

Grüße, Carsten

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