Fragmentation.

nondito nondito at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 28 13:56:57 EDT 2004


If the fragmentation is set to 512 (iwconfig wlan0
frag 512) and mtu to be set to 1500 (ifconfig wlan0
mtu 1500), what will be the layer 2 frame size between
an accesspoint (master) and client (managed)?

How is fragmentation related to mtu on wireless
layer-2?

Thanks in advance.
> 
> --- Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:02:24PM +0900, Donghyuk
> > Woo wrote:
> > 
> > > However, I'd like to send frames that is longer
> > than 1500 bytes through IEEE
> > > 802.11 WLAN.
> > > Is this possible? If yes, what should I do?
> > 
> > You will need to set the interface MTU to larger
> > value to be able to
> > send larger packets. This can be done, e.g., with
> > 'ifconfig wlan0 mtu
> > <value>'.
> > 
> > -- 
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