NFS produces zillions of them
> 3) workstations and server that do no fragment reassembly or at least no
> out-of-order fragment reassembly would have simpler (and
> better-performing) network code.
Nope, its not on the fast path
> 4) if fragment reassembly (out-of-order or not) needs to be done, it
> should be done by border routers (where people are increasingly willing to
> do computationally intensive stuff like filter and reassemble fragments).
We support this for internet stuff. However most fragmented packets are
local
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