From: "Gregg N" 

Gregg N wrote:
>
> The limiting factor will not be the maximum length allowed by the IP
> header, but the maximum length allowed by the Ethernet frame into
> which it is inserted.

Just to clarify, an IP datagram can still have a length greater than the
MTU, but it will then be fragmented into multiple Ethernet frames.

Gregg

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