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Re: [pmtud] draft PMTUD minutes from IETF64

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Fri, 09 December 2005 12:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pmtud] draft PMTUD minutes from IETF64
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Matt,

A comment on the minutes:

>Fernando noted that if TCP (or any other packetization protocol) would
>have to know the complete size of packets, and with some
>implementations that would be difficult.  However, he felt in many
>implementations it would be easy.

Actually, in the meeting I got the feeling that it was considered 
"difficult" to know the complete size of packets. What I tried to point out 
in the meeting is that, at least in BSD-derived ones, it isn't.

Kindest regards,

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Fernando Gont
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