RE: [LinkSec] LinkSec 80-2.1AE Teleconference notes 9/16/03
Mick:
This is clearly the preferred approach. In 802.10, we found that some
protocol stacks did not have a way to set the maximum PDU size. They
generated a full Ethernet frame whenever there was sufficient data in the
buffer. At layer 2, we cannot assume that all of the traffic is IP. If
memory serves, most of the protocol stacks with this problem were not IP...
Russ
At 12:03 AM 9/21/2003 -0700, Mick Seaman wrote:
>Fragmentation is just fine, but as has already been stated in a meeting (not
>by me) nobody is going to do reassembly. So don't even bother specifying
>fragmentation. The network just has to be managed so that IP uses small
>enough PDU so that expansion doesn't overflow the maximum SDU.