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[lwip-users] Fragmented datagrams


From: Mason
Subject: [lwip-users] Fragmented datagrams
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:24:04 +0100
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Zayaz Volk wrote:

> On other hand, if UDP checksum is omitted and under certain
> conditions (long UDP datagram timeout, high communcation speed and as
> a result IP overlapping while still within a UDP datagram timeout) -
> one might expect to get a wrong, but "valid" datagram with IP
> fragment belonging to another UDP datagram. - I think, it might
> happen with IPv4.

Attributing fragments of one datagram to a different datagram
would definitely be a bug in the network stack.

That's the purpose of the Identification field.
(and Fragment Offset to a lesser degree.)

-- 
Regards.



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