Re: Is Fragmentation at IP layer even needed ?

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Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Maybe what we needed all along was a better TCP that allowed data to
> be sent on the first packet.
>
> That is what people keep seeming to re-invent.
>
> Another of those cases where people keep telling me that there are
> good reasons not to do that but don't ever get round to explaining
> what they are.

http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/tcp-impl/list/archive/1292.html

But I thought TCP fast open https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413
fixed the design errors in T/TCP, so is it still considered a bad idea?

Tony.
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