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

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
From: Arthur Kepner <akepner@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:20:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx, rick.jones2@xxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <E1DYBED-0006wa-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
References: <E1DYBED-0006wa-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
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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! 

--
Arthur


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