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

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:45 -0700

> I agree, however defining a value of 600 system wide is horrible for
> all hosts that behave "correctly". So what we could do is take probes
> of the id distribution and define the threshold on a per peer scope.

Why would 600 penalize a host behaving "correctly?"  I mean, what are the 
chances of a datagram's being reassembled, if 600 subsent datagrams have arrived 
from that same host?

rick