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Subject: Re:  IP Datagram sizes
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 08:45:44 EDT
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Note that 576 is not the guaranteed limit for the networks but for the
reassembly buffers in the receiving host.  The networks can fragment
at smaller sizes and some do to get through sat-links and such.