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

To: John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:17:30 +0200
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, akepner@xxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200505171457.38719.jheffner@psc.edu> (John Heffner's message of "Tue, 17 May 2005 14:57:38 -0400")
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John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx> 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

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