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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go index 680eafd16..e8816c3f4 100644 --- a/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go +++ b/pkg/tcpip/header/ipv4.go @@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ const ( // units, the header cannot exceed 15*4 = 60 bytes. IPv4MaximumHeaderSize = 60 + // IPv4MaximumPayloadSize is the maximum size of a valid IPv4 payload. + // + // Linux limits this to 65,515 octets (the max IP datagram size - the IPv4 + // header size). But RFC 791 section 3.2 discusses the design of the IPv4 + // fragment "allows 2**13 = 8192 fragments of 8 octets each for a total of + // 65,536 octets. Note that this is consistent with the the datagram total + // length field (of course, the header is counted in the total length and not + // in the fragments)." + IPv4MaximumPayloadSize = 65536 + // MinIPFragmentPayloadSize is the minimum number of payload bytes that // the first fragment must carry when an IPv4 packet is fragmented. MinIPFragmentPayloadSize = 8 |