Subject: RE: DF and IP ID

From: "Casati, Alessio (Alessio)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:48:24 +0100

I agree the IP ID may be useless in that case.

However, I'm courious to understand the benefit of
implementing an implementation that cannot appropriately set the 
IP-ID in  the cases when it is needed (i.e, does it make sense
to have such an implementation, and in which case?).

alessio

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> From: 	Rick Jones[SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent: 	13 October 2000 21:30
> To: 	[email-masked]
> Subject: 	DF and IP ID
> 
> If an implementation of IP sets the DF bit in the header, does it need
> to worry about using unique IP datagram identifiers? 
> 
> rick
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