RE: iFCP: iFCP -06 comments

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

David:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:19 AM
> To: cmonia@NishanSystems.com
> Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: iFCP: iFCP -06 comments
> 
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> 
> > > 10.4 b) What happens when the broadcast frame exceeds the 
> MTU size?
> This
> > > seems to result in a rather unreliable broadcast service, 
> as all of the
> UDP
> > > datagrams could well be dropped, consistently and 
> repeatedly for large
> > > enough broadcast frames.
> > 
> > We will rewrite the section to:
> > 
> > a) Specify the use of source fragmentation if the datagram 
> exceeds the
> PMTU.
> 
> Details will need to be supplied, as the large FC frame is 
> being fragmented
> into UDP datagrams, and hence the UDP datagrams each need to contain
> information about how to reassemble them into an FC frame

We had intended to use IP datagram fragmentation (this should have been
mentioned explicitly, I guess).  What more do we need to specify in the way
of a fragmentation and reassembly mechanism?

Charles