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Title : Updated Specification of the IPv4 ID Field
Author(s) : J. Touch
Filename : draft-ietf-intarea-ipv4-id-update-02.txt
Pages : 15
Date : 2011-03-14
The IPv4 Identification (ID) field enables fragmentation and
reassembly, and as currently specified is required to be unique
within the maximum lifetime on all datagrams. If enforced, this
uniqueness requirement would limit all connections to 6.4 Mbps.
Because this is obviously not the case, it is clear that existing
systems violate the current specification. This document updates the
specification of the IPv4 ID field in RFC 791, RFC 1122, and RFC 2003
to more closely reflect current practice and to more closely match
IPv6 so that the field is defined only when a datagram is actually
fragmented. It also discusses the impact of these changes on how
datagrams are used.
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