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

Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr> Thu, 04 July 2013 11:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function
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Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:11:01 +0200
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 In your previous mail you wrote:

>  Considering the above, I guess I'm in the camp of "avoid fragmentation
>  where possible". However, I don't think I'd go as far as deprecating it.

=> I have private notes about the deprecation of reassembly so
not so far... BTW there was (still is) a TCP/IP stack so poor it
doesn't handle reassembly of out of order TCP fragments, so the idea
is not so silly.

Regards

Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr

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