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General IPv6 Topics => IPv6 Basics & Questions & General Chatter => Topic started by: jan101 on September 18, 2013, 07:48:46 PM

Title: ipv6 fragmentation
Post by: jan101 on September 18, 2013, 07:48:46 PM

IPv4 has the fragmentation field and ipv6 does not. How does ipv6 handle fragmentation?

Title: Re: ipv6 fragmentation
Post by: allen4names on October 03, 2013, 11:06:03 PM

An extension header (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_packet#Extension_headers) is added using protocol 44.