I used a UDP socket (IPv4) sending 64KB packet to an end-system. When I capture the packets of end-system using Wireshark, I found that the IP Identification field of the reassembled IP datagram range from 0x0000-0x7fff(0-32767)
, i.e, when the end-system received a datagram with ID 0x7fff
, the next datagram holds the id value of 0x0000
rather than 0x8000
.
It confused me a lot. Why not 0x0000-0xffff(0-65536)
?
My sender program is written with C# code, running on Windows7. Network interface card brand is Intel.
Please help.