Re: reassembly of fragments

[Alan Cox]

> If you you would reassemble when possible, a packet could be defragmented
> and fragmented at every hop. This isn't very efficient, possible though.

There are specific reasons for end point defragmentation, and they arent
efficiency related ones - different fragments may take different routes,
so any given non end point host may not see all the fragments


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