March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
Fragmentation is a common mechanism in IP that takes a large IP packet and divides it into smaller packets that will fit in the Layer-2 Ethernet frames. When any router receives a packet that is larger than the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of the outgoing interface, the packet will be fragmented. In most cases, there shouldn't be any problems with the mechanism, but there might be performance issues due to this mechanism. IP fragmentation may also be used as a source for a DoS attack.
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