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From: Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sequence of IP fragment packets on the wire
Date: 03 Oct 2002 15:51:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033653105.22055.2.camel@forge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033647370.28022.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

Hi,

thanks to anyone for making this clear. Replacing this particular
system is currently out of question but I will take it on with the
people from SonicWall (oops, now the name did slip, silly me...)
to get this fixed ASAP. 

	Regards
		Henning


On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:16, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:51, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> > This confuses at least one firewall appliance. As I understand it,
> 
> You should replace that appliance. Packets can get re-ordered by a
> million different things on the wire not just by the fact Linux is
> optimising the fragment processes.
> 
> > Is there a way to configure this? Maybe even connection specific? 
> 
> No
> 
> Alan

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-03 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-03 10:51 Sequence of IP fragment packets on the wire Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-03 10:53 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-03 11:18 ` David Schwartz
2002-10-03 12:42   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-03 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 13:51   ` Henning Schmiedehausen [this message]
     [not found] <anh7es$mpl$1@forge.intermeta.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <20021003.035352.132919623.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-03 17:13   ` Andi Kleen

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