flags

created by Magenta

(thing) by kessenich (3.2 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Mar 04 2000 at 9:53:40

A 3-bit field of the IP packet header.

The first bit is unused. The second is the do not fragment (DF) bit. When that is set to one, a router cannot fragment the packet. If the packet can't be forwarded without fragmenting, the router drops the packet and sends an error message to the source. This allows for MTU testing in an internetwork. The third (low order bit is the more fragments (MF) bit, which specifies if the fragment contains data from the middle or the end of the original datagram. When a router fragments a packet, it sets the MF bit to one in all but the last fragment. The receiver expects fragments until it receives a fragment with MF=0.

printable version
chaos

Flags and flag etiquette	flag	freak flag	IP Packet Header
South Korean Flag	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Advertising Cover	Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Revolution	Buffalo	vexillology	Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
Fix-A-Flat	megaphone	Notelet Nodelet Squawkbox Client	Intelligence Quotient
Two-party system	Carl Heine	Swiss Flag	Uranus
Rua Fiola	transnationalism	The U.S. is a terrorist state	Pledge of Allegiance

Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.

Login
Password

remember me
password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Look at this mess the Death Borg made!
hatless atlas
rampaging wenchbeast
Serving saké
Let me fall until I believe, you're more than the leaves
And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget
Gold
Bahá'í
The Worst Moment
Reflections of yourself
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Everything King James Bible
Catullus 11
extreme ironing

antigravpussy
One fly amongst many	(person)
sam512
Moon Base Shackleton, 1978	(fiction)
Pavlovna
toy boy	(person)
XWiz
tear jerker	(review)
Heitah
Anarchy is Order	(idea)
jessicaj
July 26, 2008	(dream)
Berek
ABBA	(person)
devolution
k-hole	(place)
Nadine_2
The Sound Of Madness	(review)
SwimmingMonkey
Conversations with Fo Fo, the Loneliest dog in Purgatory	(fiction)
locke baron
lynx	(thing)
Simulacron3
Reality, Dimensions and the Natural Ontology	(essay)
SubSane
Making Love to a 9-Foot Woman	(person)
Ouzo
Thoughts	(idea)
antigravpussy
I fall silent, listening. The breadcrumbs are talking about us	(person)

This affordable entertainment brought to you by The Everything Development Company