So you think you understand IP fragmentation?

Posted Feb 9, 2024 14:20 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: So you think you understand IP fragmentation? by smurf
Parent article: So you think you understand IP fragmentation?

Even IPv6 jumbograms have a length field, in the Jumbo Payload hop-by-hop header. This is a 32-bit number instead of a 16 bit number, but if you have the full IPv6 header, you'll get a length field to work with (either 16 bits, if not jumbo-sized, or 32 if jumbo-sized).