Support TCP segmentation when DontFragment is set and packet exceeds outgoing MTU
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Description
Currently, we assume that packets sent by our stack have DontFragment == 0. This means that we fragment packets in the IP layer instead of segmenting them in the transport layer.
Code reference: https://source.corp.google.com/piper///depot/google3/third_party/gvisor/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv4/ipv4.go;l=436?q=ipv4.go&ss=piper%2FGoogle%2FPiper:google3%2Fthird_party%2Fgvisor%2Fpkg%2Ftcpip%2F
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