From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>,
dlstevens@us.ibm.com, rick.jones2@hp.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:09:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6afda9c168e2105c783eec268fc225b4@psc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050517232556.GA26846@gondor.apana.org.au>
On May 17, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> Perhaps you misunderstood what I was saying. I meant are there any
> extant systems that would transmit 1 set of fragments to host A with
> id x, then 65535 packets host B, and then wrap around and send a new
> set of fragments to host A with idx.
>
> Linux will never do this thanks to inetpeer.c.
Of course (as usual) NATs break everything. ;-)
There are also the ugly case where fragments could be delayed in the
network for a period of time, for example during a path change, and
show up at exactly the wrong time.
-John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-18 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-17 16:18 [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 17:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 18:28 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 18:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 20:21 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 18:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 18:45 ` Pekka Savola
2005-05-17 18:50 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 18:56 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 18:57 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:09 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 19:21 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:26 ` Ben Greear
2005-05-17 20:48 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-17 19:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 19:56 ` David Stevens
2005-05-17 20:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 20:22 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 20:27 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 21:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 21:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 21:24 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 21:25 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:06 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 22:18 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:40 ` David Stevens
2005-05-17 23:11 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:20 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 23:25 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:55 ` David Stevens
2005-05-18 0:00 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:04 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18 0:09 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-18 0:06 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-18 0:10 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:51 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-18 1:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18 1:13 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 1:09 ` John Heffner [this message]
2005-05-17 23:53 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:12 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 22:23 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 20:29 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:01 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 19:13 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:25 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 19:31 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:52 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 20:05 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 20:12 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:33 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:53 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 22:11 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 22:13 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 23:08 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 23:28 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-17 23:41 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:47 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 1:06 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-18 1:16 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 1:37 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 1:52 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 11:30 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 11:40 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 12:24 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 16:21 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-18 17:40 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 17:44 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 21:46 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 22:24 ` David Stevens
2005-05-18 22:39 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-18 23:31 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 21:45 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 12:23 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-19 12:48 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 15:19 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-19 17:02 ` Rick Jones
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