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Comment by Swimmingcloud
Submitted on 6/26/2007
Related RFC: RFC 894
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The minimum lenth is 46 bytes not 1500. I am always curious about thow can this type of encapsulation tell the actual lenth of the datagram if only have a two bytes "type field" comparing with RFC 1042?

 
 
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