Re: Another proposal to think about

[Philippe Prindeville <[e-mail]>]

     Scenario 1:  Both stations have implemented the MTU discovery feature:
  	1. Station A sends to station B a packet that will be fragmented.
  	2. Station B receives the packet and informs the transport layer
  	   what the size of fragment 0 is (Steve's paper suggests that this
  	   feature is needed anyways).
  	3. Station B then sends a packet back to station A with a new MSS 
  	   option that resembles the size of fragment 0.
  	4. If the packet with the new MSS is lost, no problem. The next time
  	   Station B receives a fragmented packet it will send out another
  	   MSS option. It will do this until a packet finally reaches Station A.

Just one comment here -- if the packet was a jumbogram and more than
2 derived packets resulted, I think that any fragment with the MF-bit
set (ie. all but the tail) should be usable, since they might arrive
out of order.

-Philip