RFC 815 · UNKNOWN · 1982
MON · 15 JUN 2026
IP datagram reassembly algorithms
Overview
RFC 815, “IP datagram reassembly algorithms”, is an Unknown document published in July 1982 by D.D. Clark. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This RFC describes an alternate approach of dealing with reassembly which reduces the bookkeeping problem to a minimum, and requires only one buffer for storage equal in size to the final datagram being reassembled, which can reassemble a datagram from any number of fragments arriving in any order with any possible pattern of overlap and duplication, and which is appropriate for almost any sort of operating system.
What “Unknown” means
The standards-track status of this early RFC was never formally classified.
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