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From: dpk@BRL.ARPA (Doug Kingston)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  IP Datagram sizes
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 13:09:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 13:09:04 1987
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Bob,
	The main argument against fragmenting is that when
the loss rate goes up, which is has lately under conditions
of heavy congestion, the total throughput drops dramatically
since the loss of any one fragment can kill a set of packets.

-Doug-