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Exercises for the interested readerExercises for the interested readerPosted Dec 4, 2010 1:34 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Exercises for the interested reader by mxkb Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs
Probably because those two things you said cannot possibly rise to the level of "needs a brand new incompatible-with-everything replacement"...
Also: the identification field is used for something other than fragment reassembly? huh..
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Exercises for the interested reader Posted Dec 7, 2010 0:55 UTC (Tue) by mxkb (guest, #71646) [Link]
Yes, protocol wise, the identification field is used only for fragmentation. But in debugging, you can use it for correlating packets seen at two different places. Just think about it, in a datagram paradigm, isn't it useful if I can tell a retransmitted packet from the original packet?
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