RFC 791, "Internet Protocol", September 1981

Errata ID: 578
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Yin Shuming
Date Reported: 2006-02-18
Held for Document Update by: ron bonica

Section 3.2 says:

Note that this is consistent with the the datagram total length field (of 
course, the header is counted in the total length and not in the 
fragments).

It should say:

Note that this is consistent with the datagram total length field (of 
course, the header is counted in the total length and not in the 
fragments).

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