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From: ddp+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Drew Daniel Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP over FDDI
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Date: 11 Nov 88 06:07:36 GMT
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Suggestion:  Instead of starting packet reception on an even byte boundary, what
if you start it on an odd boundary?  That way the odd header size will allow the
IP and TCP headers to be on an even boundary.  Will this be a problem for your
hardware?

Drew