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sheffy



Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: 08/14/07 - 05:03    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am reading something about TCP/IP protocol and networking and something is not very clear to me. It is term fragmentation offset. It seems that I can not grasp concept behind it. I would really appreciate if you could explain this to me in plain words so I can try to understand it. Thank you in front.
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christophe



Joined: 09 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: 08/31/07 - 03:14    Post subject: Reply with quote

Network traffic (when TCP/IP is involved) is made with IP packets. Every IP packet has a header (like email lets say). This header stores information about package which includes version, flag, options, source address, destination address and several others including fragmentation offset. Fragmentation offset is used to remember the place where data packet has been split and it has values in octets. Which means that value in fragmentation offset should be multiplied with eight to find it exact place in datagram.
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