Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] unreassembled fragmented

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:34:33 -0400
On 02:29 PM 7/8/2004, Colao, Anthony wrote:
>Can Anyone tell me what an unreassembled fragmented packet is?  What it is caused by?   


If a packet cannot traverse a link because of MTU mismatch, then the router must fragment the IP packet into two or more parts.  This assumes the client is not using PMTU-D to find the proper MTU size and is not setting the DF bit.

If you fragment the packet and lose a part of the piece, you can get these types of issues.

hansang