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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 1

fragment offset

Also written: flags and offset

A 13-bit IPv4 field that says where a fragment's data belongs in the original packet. It is counted in 8-byte units on the wire, so 185 means byte 1,480, though tcpdump shows the offset in bytes.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

fragmentsMF (more fragments)ID (identification)offset