Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:10:13PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> >
> > Just a quick question before I try some prototyping. If I have a raw
> > socket and
> > set IP_HDRINCL, then send out an IP packet larger than the underlying
> > physical
> > layer can handle (say 2KB packets over ethernet) will the ip stack fragment
> > the
> > packet for me?
>
> They are not, as documented in raw(7)
My man raw(7) says:
"When the IP_HDRINCL option is set datagrams will not be fragmented and are
limited to the interface MTU. This is a limitation in Linux 2.2."
Does 2.4 have this same limitation?
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