On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Arthur Kepner wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > ....
> > Such systems would be violating the spirit of RFC791 which says:
> >
> > The identification field is used to distinguish the fragments of one
> > datagram from those of another. The originating protocol module of
> > an internet datagram sets the identification field to a value that
> > must be unique for that source-destination pair and protocol for the
> > time the datagram will be active in the internet system.
> >
> > Are you aware of any extant systems that do this?
> > ....
>
> Are you aware of any (new) systems that _don't_ violate this? I
> wouldn't want to own one of them!
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.
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