From: "Geo" 

"Gregg N"  wrote in message
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> > There is a do not fragment setting via that flag, who is that do not
> > fragment setting supposed to instruct if not the routers? Is it just
> > for a different network layer before the packet leaves the machine?
>
> The "don't fragment' flag requests that the next hop not fragment it when
> it sends it on. It's for the same IP layer. I don't see how your question
> is relevant to what you quoted about fragmentation not requiring a
> response.

If the router is fragmenting the traffic and buffering incoming traffic,
there must be a mechanism to tell the local computers to hold up a minute
because my buffer (me being the router) is full.

Geo.

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