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For questions about packet fragmentation in a computer network. For instance, you are troubleshooting a case, where a network device encounter packet loss; and reliable protocols such as TCP must retransmit all of the fragments in order to recover from the loss of a single fragment.

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Where is the data fragmented into pieces, and based on what rule?

It's done that way to avoid unneeded ip-fragmentation at sending host. Then os driver forms ip packet and sends it out of network interface. …
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