Re: Sequence of IP fragment packets on the wire

From: Henning Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 08:51:44 EST

Hi,

thanks to anyone for making this clear. Replacing this particular
system is currently out of question but I will take it on with the
people from SonicWall (oops, now the name did slip, silly me...)
to get this fixed ASAP.

        Regards
                Henning

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:16, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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 

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