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UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO)

Created by Konstantin Lepikhov on Apr 25, 2018

UFO does for UDPwhatLSO does for TCP. Where TCP has segmentation (of a byte stream into segments that fit into IP packets), UDP only has fragmentation - of a large message/datagram into multiple IP fragments.

References

UFO Definition, Networking workgroup, Linux Foundation
Linux kernel commit: UFO Scatter/Gather Approach

-- Main.SimonLeinen - 2014-12-26

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