What kind of packet? Fragmentation and reassembly is a fundamental job of IP. Other protocol families don't have the feature, however. For example, neither IPX or AppleTalk do fragmentation and reassembly.
The host (end station or router) that needs to send an IP packet that's bigger than the output interface MTU does the fragmentation. The fragments travel across the internetwork. The recipient end-station reassembles them. Priscilla At 03:35 AM 2/1/02, somera cecilia wrote: >hello, i need some help on this subject. If a packet is more than the set >mtu size of 1500, say packet size is 4352 bytes >-does the packet get dropped? >-or fragmented and re-assembled in the destination end > >what should be the correct behaviour? >when does the packet don't get fragmented? > > >TIA >cecil ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=34085&t=34022 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
