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

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 02:04:14 +0200

Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> Perhaps you misunderstood what I was saying.  I meant are there any
> extant systems that would transmit 1 set of fragments to host A with
> id x, then 65535 packets host B, and then wrap around and send a new
> set of fragments to host A with idx.
>
> Linux will never do this thanks to inetpeer.c.

It will, you just need enough other hosts to thrash inetpeer. How many
you need depends on your available memory.

-Andi