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Is it possible to further fragment an IP fragment?
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Say that an IP fragment of length 5000bytes is fragmented into 2 2500byte fragments. Is it possible for each 2500byte fragment to be further fragmented? If so, which IP header fields tells the destination host how to reassemble the sub fragments?
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It is possible to further fragment IP fragments at any point on the path. However, the 're-assembly' is done only at the destination -- so no 'de-fragmentation'. Reassembly at the receiving end-host is done based on the and flag in each fragmented Iā¦
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