IP fragmentation bugs in 4.2bsd or Sun UNIX

Jim Hutchison hutch at sdcsvax.UUCP
Tue May 13 03:03:55 AEST 1986


In article <913 at takuya.uucp> shinoda at takuya.UUCP (Yoichi Shinoda) writes:
>    When fragmented IP packets are routed with further fragmentation,
>they are sent wrong with ip_off field of the first outgoing packet
>corresponding to each orginal fragmented text reset to 0, causing
>reassembly of the original packet to be impossible.

Does anyone know how this would affect the transmission of large
datagrams (UDP) between a vax and a sun network (4.2sunII-to-4.2/3vax780)?
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