On 02/16/12 19:39, Martin Peach wrote:
As I understood it, the OS's tcp/ip stack will take care of putting tcp
packets back together, the application will receive complete messages
unless they are bigger than an IP packet (~65k). Only if the sender is
dribbling out partial messages would that be a problem. Fragmentation is
more relevant to serial communications, where a packet arrives one byte
at a time with no obvious boundaries unless you use SLIP, or a serial
wireless link where bytes may be lost. TCP just discards broken packets.
from the application's point of view, tcp/ip _is_ a serial connection.
i don't think there is any guarantee that the ip-packets are not
re-fragmented during transmission.
nevertheless, in practice you are right that you will experience
problems more easily with large IP packets, and smallish ones (like the
ones we were originally talking about) might hardly ever be effected.
fgmadr
IOhanne
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