From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article ,   
    Martijn Lievaart  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:25:51 -0400, Mark wrote:   
   >   
   > > Hi All,   
   > >   
   > > Reading RFC791:   
   > > "Every internet module must be able to forward a datagram of 68 octets   
   > > without further fragmentation. This is because an internet header may be   
   > > up to 60 octets, and the minimum fragment is 8 octets."   
   > >   
   > > Does it mean that it's possible to have IP packet carrying UDP payload   
   > > of size 0 ?   
   >   
   > Yes.   
      
   But that's not implied by the above requirement. RFC 791 is about IP,   
   which may be used by many different transport protocols.  Even if UDP   
   didn't allow zero-length payloads, some other protocol might.   
      
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