Re: your mail

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 10:18:31 EST


> fragment packet (containing the Transport layer information) at the last. In
> short if the packets arrive in the transmitted order at the destination the
> last fragment is received first and the first fragment at the last.
> Why is it so?

Its faster to send that way, and although we dont use the property, faster
to receive

(Send because you dont have to compute the checksum before sending the
 first fragment, receive because the end fragment tells you the full packet
size so you know this in advance)

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