IP Fragmentation and Reassembly, More Than Just a Textbook Topic
IP Fragmentation and Reassembly, More Than Just a Textbook Topic IP fragmentation and reassembly. An old topic. Textbooks explain it cleanly: routers split packets when the next hop MTU is smaller, and receivers stitch fragments back together using offsets. But anyone who has run real traffic knows the truth is messier. This article walks through […]