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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:52:20 -0700
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John Heffner wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:25 pm, Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> 
>>Yes, a different manifestation of the problem ;). I was talking
>>in the context of current Linux code and the common ethernet drivers
>>and typical current Internet/Intranet latencies.
> 
> 
> The problem is latency independent.

Not entirely - because our reassembly timeout expires, typically.
(If I understand you right).

thanks,
Nivedita