METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA FRAME BETWEEN HOST AND HOST IN LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

A host in a local area network is provided, which comprises a Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) notification module, for transmitting MTU information of this host to a receiver host via a message transceiver module prior to data frame transmission, and transmitting the MTU, which is returned by the receiver host and received by the message transceiver module, to a IP fragmentation module as the basic for IP fragmentation of this host. A method for transmitting data frames between hosts is also provided.