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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: hps@intermeta.de
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sequence of IP fragment packets on the wire
Date: 03 Oct 2002 13:16:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033647370.28022.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <anh7es$mpl$1@forge.intermeta.de>

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:51, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> This confuses at least one firewall appliance. As I understand it,

You should replace that appliance. Packets can get re-ordered by a
million different things on the wire not just by the fact Linux is
optimising the fragment processes.

> Is there a way to configure this? Maybe even connection specific? 

No

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-03 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-03 10:51 Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-03 10:53 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-03 11:18 ` David Schwartz
2002-10-03 12:42   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-03 12:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-10-03 13:51   ` Henning Schmiedehausen
     [not found] <anh7es$mpl$1@forge.intermeta.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <20021003.035352.132919623.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-03 17:13   ` Andi Kleen

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