Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporting

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Wed, 06 Feb 2002 20:38:38 -0800 (PST)

From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:21:09 -0700

Alan Cox wrote:

> UDP is not flow controlled.

If it makes it through sendto, where can it be dropped before it
hits the wire?

If the packet ends up being fragmented on the way out and the socket
cannot take on the allocation against it's buffer space.
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