From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [IPV4] Always set hoplimit
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:05:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031118170533.64f53889.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031119010827.GA25593@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:08:27 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:59:09PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > Did you run into an actual problem that led you to this issue? If
> > so, what was it? Or was this just determined by pure code review?
>
> Someone reported this problem to me after a picky firewall complained
> about getting broadcast packets with ttl == 0.
Ok, that doubly-justifies the fix.
Thanks again Herbert.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-19 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 11:04 [IPV4] Always set hoplimit Herbert Xu
2003-11-19 0:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-19 1:08 ` Herbert Xu
2003-11-19 1:05 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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