Re: reassembly of fragments
Jamie Lokier (ln@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:10:15 +0000
Alan Cox wrote:
> There are specific reasons for end point defragmentation, and they arent
> efficiency related ones - different fragments may take different routes,
> so any given non end point host may not see all the fragments
And as this doesn't apply to a firewall using a single router, feel free
to defragment there. Just remember it won't be reliable if you add more
connections to the net.
-- Jamie
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