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

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:21:47 -0700

David S. Miller wrote:
> From: John Heffner <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:57:38 -0400
> 
> 
>>It would be better still to have a per-route packet reassembly timeout in 
>>milliseconds.
> 
> 
> I agree.  And if we can setup the infrastructure such that the
> drivers can indicate the speed of the link they are communicating
> on, then we can set sane default values on the automatically
> created subnet routes.

Does the ingress link really tell us all that much about the path a given 
datagram's fragments took to get to us?  Even if the source IP is ostensibly a 
local one?

rick jones