Computer Networking
To make possible the efficient on-line servicing of many teleprocessing system users on large computer systems, designers are developing
a technique used in best-effort delivery system to avoid endlessly looping packets.
One of the pieces that results when an IP gateway divides an IP datagram into smaller pieces for transmission across a network that cannot handle the original datagram size.
a technique used by protocols in which a lower level protocol accepts a message from a higher level protocol and places it in the data portion of the low level frame