Dale,

+1 on your answer.

Thomas

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Dale R. Worley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Randy Turner <[email protected]> writes:
> > Just re-confirming an assumption -- from a TSCH perspective, slot
> > scheduling assumes any single transmission "cannot" exceed a slot
> > boundary -- if transmissions require a certain amount of time, then the
> > slot width is increased to deal with this ( or possibly increase the
> > TX bit rate if possible )
> >
> > Is this correct ?
>
> As others have noted, extending the slot width can only be done when the
> network is initialized.  In practice, packets that do not fit within a
> slot time are fragmented.  My understanding is that all such packets are
> IP packets, and are fragmented using using the layer 2 fragmentation
> defined in RFC 6282 (not the one defined in RFC 4944).  Thus, the
> minimum (layer 3) IPv6 MTU of 1280 bytes is supported.
>
> As far as I know, there is no fragmentation mechanism for the EB
> (extended beacon) layer-2 packets.  But that does not seem to be a
> problem in practice.
>
> Dale
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