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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:17:30 +0200
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John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> writes:

>
> It would be better still to have a per-route packet reassembly timeout in 
> milliseconds.  Expecting perfect ordering seems very fragile even for a LAN.

In fact I implemented that a long time ago for the SUSE 2.4 kernel.
But for some reason nobody liked it very much, so I never submitted it.

I can dig out the old patches if there is interest.

-Andi