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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Packet Sizes
Message-ID: <17724@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 01:43:04 GMT
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In article <9103151236.AA05472@asylum.sf.ca.us> romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us writes:
+If you're looking at raw ethernet packet lengths (as opposed to IP
+datagram lengths), you'll see lots of 60 byte packets on the net
+because ethernet has a minimum packet length of 60 bytes. Any packets
+that are shorter are padded out to 60. IP can tell how many bytes it

Sometime ago I had a ethernet analyzer on a line with both TCP/IP
and DECNET traffic. It seems to me that there were some DECNET
packets shorter than the minimum. It could have been a halucination
or does DEC violate the standard.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu