Mark Doll wrote: ... > 2. Giving the exact length of "original datagram" in octets to differentiate > the origianl datagram from a possibly added padding is unnecessary, since the > length of the original datagram can be deduced from its own length field, > carried in the IP header of the original datagram itself.
This is true only if the original IP datagram is included in its entirety. That's not the case for MTU-sized original datagrams, or any datagram which is otherwise truncated (e.g., for performance). Joe
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