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RFC 815: IP datagram reassembly algorithms

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This RFC describes an alternate approach of dealing with reassembly which reduces the bookkeeping problem to a minimum, and requires only one buffer for storage equal in size to the final datagram being reassembled, which can reassemble a datagram from any number of fragments arriving in any order with any possible pattern of overlap and duplication, and which is appropriate for almost any sort of operating system.

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Document ID
RFC815
Published
July 1982
Authors
D.D. Clark
Status
UNKNOWN
Stream
Legacy
Area
Pages
8
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