Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UC.MSC.UMN.EDU!slevy From: slevy@UC.MSC.UMN.EDU ("Stuart Levy") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: IP broadcast fragmentation [was: UDP max datagram size ?] Message-ID: <8809261406.AA01872@uc.msc.umn.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 14:06:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 Speaking of fragmenting broadcasts, can anyone explain the rationale for not doing this? Is it just BSD IP which refuses to fragment them or is it widely held to be a Bad Thing? I don't find mention of fragmentation in RFC 919. Stuart Levy, slevy@uc.msc.umn.edu