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Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly

To: David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
From: John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:29:08 -0400
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>, akepner@xxxxxxx, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:56 pm, David Stevens wrote:
> Dave,
>         Shouldn't that be an estimator on the destination RTT? Or is that

Unfortunately, it's not the RTT that matters, but link speed.
You could probably do some heuristics on this, but I don't know if it's worth 
the effort.

IMO, high-rate applications which rely on IP fragmentation and a 16-bit ones 
complement for data integrity are broken, and a band-aid style workaround for 
them is probably good enough.  As long as it's not inflicted on the rest of 
us. :)

  -John

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