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reassembly
Putting a message back together from network packets that arrived split up or out of order.
Data sent over a network is broken into packets that can fragment and arrive in the wrong order. Reassembly is the receiving side's job of reordering and joining those pieces into the original whole message. In this stack it's noted as not-yet-implemented, meaning the network layer doesn't yet handle fragmented packets.
See also
- retransmitResending network data that got lost, so the receiver eventually gets a complete, correct stream.
- QEMUSoftware that emulates a whole computer, so an operating system can boot and run inside a window instead of on real hardware.
- record layerThe part of TLS that chops your data into chunks and encrypts each one for sending.