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From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
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Subject: Re: ARP & IP fragments
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-net/200110190319.f9J3Jx371649@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> you write:
>calls back up the stack to have it done.  This would also allow smart
>network interfaces to provide hardware fragmentation assistance, which
>might be helpful on some media.

The code to support hardware fragmentation offload is already present
in the codebase.  However, I don't believe that any existing driver makes
use of it at the moment.
-- 
Jonathan

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