On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Morten Schlaeger <morten@ee.tu-berlin.de> > Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:18:20 +0100 > > as far as I remember the IP RFC, the smallest IP fragment has a length > of 21 octets > > Page 24 of RFC791 states that IP fragments must be a multiple > of 8 octets in length in their data portion. This is because > fragments are measured in units of 8 octets. More specifically, the RFC says: If an internet datagram is fragmented, its data portion must be broken on 8 octet boundaries. AFAICS, this is not quite the same as saying every fragment's data portion must be multiple of 8? One could say that every fragment with More Fragments = 1 complies to this. But the last part is somewhere between 1-8 bytes, right? RFC791 says nothing about padding it, but it may be implied? Something I've missed? -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
